[llvm] [AMDGPU][PromoteAlloca] Support memsets to ptr allocas (PR #80678)

[Pierre van Houtryve via llvm-commits]

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@@ -521,10 +521,18 @@ static Value *promoteAllocaUserToVector(
       // For memset, we don't need to know the previous value because we
       // currently only allow memsets that cover the whole alloca.
       Value *Elt = MSI->getOperand(1);
-      if (DL.getTypeStoreSize(VecEltTy) > 1) {
-        Value *EltBytes =
-            Builder.CreateVectorSplat(DL.getTypeStoreSize(VecEltTy), Elt);
-        Elt = Builder.CreateBitCast(EltBytes, VecEltTy);
+      const unsigned BytesPerElt = DL.getTypeStoreSize(VecEltTy);
+      if (BytesPerElt > 1) {
+        Value *EltBytes = Builder.CreateVectorSplat(BytesPerElt, Elt);
+
+        // If the element type of the vector is a pointer, we need to first cast
+        // to an integer, then use a PtrCast.
+        if (VecEltTy->isPointerTy()) {
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Pierre-vh wrote:

What do you mean vector of pointers?


https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/80678