[PATCH] Remove out of date wording from LangRef

Philip Reames listmail at philipreames.com
Tue Mar 4 09:51:33 PST 2014


+Chris under the hope he can clarify

On 03/01/2014 04:01 PM, Sean Silva wrote:
>
>
>     Patch Comment:
>     This patch removes confusing and out of date text from the
>     LangRef. LLVM no longer performs structural uniquing on named
>     types.  Most of the documentation was updated to reflect this, but
>     this section got missed.  I attempted to replace the original
>     wording with appropriate forward references, but it's debatable
>     whether the section should be kept at all.
>
>
> I think you have the direction of this patch backward. AFAIK the 
> *current* system uses structural uniquing.
>
> -- Sean Silva
>
This is *exactly* the point I was trying to get clarify on in my 
original email to llvmdev.

I believe that your interpretation is incorrect.  I'm going off this 
blog post:
http://blog.llvm.org/2011/11/llvm-30-type-system-rewrite.html

Chris - Could you clarify?  Does the current type system combine 
structural types with different names?

Yours,
Philip
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