[PATCH] D104795: [IVDescriptors] Make pointer inductions compatible with opaque pointers

[Nikita Popov via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

nikic added a comment.

In D104795#2973572 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D104795#2973572>, @aeubanks wrote:

> can we make everything use i8 now? that'd be one less thing to worry about during the migration step

Without opaque pointers, that would require inserting a bitcast before and after every GEP (unless it already happens to work on an i8 pointer). It's possible, but I don't think it makes sense with typed pointers.


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