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

[Nikita Popov via llvm-commits]

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@@ -4132,6 +4131,66 @@ static void emitGlobalConstantFP(const ConstantFP *CFP, AsmPrinter &AP) {
   emitGlobalConstantFP(CFP->getValueAPF(), CFP->getType(), AP);
 }
 
+static void emitGlobalConstantLargeByte(const ConstantByte *CB,
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nikic wrote:

Can you refactor this to avoid copying the implementation? It looks like this really just needs the APInt value plus the type store size, the rest is the same for int/byte.

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