[llvm] r234126 - [opaque pointer type] The last of the GEP IRBuilder API migrations

[Paweł Bylica]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 4:47 PM David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Paweł Bylica <chfast at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Will typed pointer go away completely on IR API level?
>
> That's my plan (if there's some reason for that not to be the case -
> we should talk about it). Well, there will probably still be the API
> for typed pointers to keep the bitcode parser easy to manage (I
> suspect it would be excessively complicated to try to parse legacy
> pointer types from the bitcode while removing the composite
> PointerType entirely - so I might keep it around, rename it to
> LegacyPointerType or similar & try to make sure only the bitcode
> parser uses it)
>

I was thinking about high level API that would help a LLVM user to track
pointee types. I've checked it was discussed in the main LLVMdev thread, so
it should close the subject here.
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