[llvm] [llvm][IR] Deprecate IRBuilderBase::getInt8PtrTy (PR #74096)

[Youngsuk Kim via llvm-commits]

https://github.com/JOE1994 created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/74096

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>From 9e1f2d7f378e15c3edcdbc3d2a4fe01701d97ed0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Youngsuk Kim <youngsuk.kim at hpe.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 10:08:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] [llvm][IR] Deprecate IRBuilderBase::getInt8PtrTy

---
 llvm/include/llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h b/llvm/include/llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h
index 2cd9a665e9e5d05..f68dfc37ce9f01c 100644
--- a/llvm/include/llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h
@@ -565,6 +565,7 @@ class IRBuilderBase {
   }
 
   /// Fetch the type representing a pointer to an 8-bit integer value.
+  [[deprecated("Pointers no longer have element types. Use getPtrTy instead.")]]
   PointerType *getInt8PtrTy(unsigned AddrSpace = 0) {
     return getPtrTy(AddrSpace);
   }