[llvm] [IR] Add initial support for the byte type (PR #178666)

[Nikita Popov via llvm-commits]

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@@ -2470,8 +2451,8 @@ AttributeMask AttributeFuncs::typeIncompatible(Type *Ty, AttributeSet AS,
                                                AttributeSafetyKind ASK) {
   AttributeMask Incompatible;
 
-  if (!Ty->isIntegerTy()) {
-    // Attributes that only apply to integers.
+  if (!Ty->isIntegerTy() && !Ty->isByteTy()) {
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nikic wrote:

Why are we allowing byte allocalign here?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/178666