[PATCH] D102523: [docs] Explain address spaces a bit more in opaque pointers doc

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Index: llvm/docs/OpaquePointers.rst
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--- llvm/docs/OpaquePointers.rst
+++ llvm/docs/OpaquePointers.rst
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@
 pointee types in LLVM with an opaque pointer type. The new pointer type is
 tentatively represented textually as ``ptr``.
 
-Anything to do with pointer address spaces is unaffected.
+Address spaces are still used to distinguish between different kinds of pointers
+where the distinction is relevant for lowering (e.g. data vs function pointers
+have different sizes on some architectures). For more information, see
+`DataLayout <LangRef.html#langref-datalayout>`_.
 
 Issues with explicit pointee types
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