[PATCH] D30669: [NVPTX] Add an "image" attribute and simplify the NVPTX rdoimage, wroimage, and rdrwimage attributes.

[Matt Arsenault via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

arsenm added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D30669#695232, @jlebar wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D30669#695229, @arsenm wrote:
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> > What advantage over reserving an address space for images does this have? Now that we can have non-integral pointer types, why not just designate an address space for read/write images?
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> Hm, I guess that makes a lot of sense... I don't think it's legal to GEP, address space cast, or even do regular loads on these pointers, but whatever?


I think these are allowed, just not ptrtoint


https://reviews.llvm.org/D30669