[llvm] [DirectX] Emit unresolved ptr as i8* (PR #192086)

[Harald van Dijk via llvm-commits]

https://github.com/hvdijk created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/192086

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>From c1564d9b75b7e126c4c559794a1cd125fccd537e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harald van Dijk <hdijk at accesssoftek.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:40:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [DirectX] Emit unresolved ptr as i8*

---
 .../Target/DirectX/DirectXIRPasses/PointerTypeAnalysis.cpp  | 4 ++++
 llvm/test/CodeGen/DirectX/global-variable.ll                | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 llvm/test/CodeGen/DirectX/global-variable.ll

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/DirectX/DirectXIRPasses/PointerTypeAnalysis.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/DirectX/DirectXIRPasses/PointerTypeAnalysis.cpp
index 4309e29e1440d..dd2037277e460 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/DirectX/DirectXIRPasses/PointerTypeAnalysis.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/DirectX/DirectXIRPasses/PointerTypeAnalysis.cpp
@@ -81,8 +81,12 @@ Type *classifyPointerType(const Value *V, PointerTypeMap &Map) {
     }
   }
   // If we were unable to determine the pointee type, set to i8
+  // If we were able to determine the pointee type as ptr, set to i8*
   if (!PointeeTy)
     PointeeTy = Type::getInt8Ty(V->getContext());
+  if (PointeeTy->isPointerTy())
+    PointeeTy = TypedPointerType::get(Type::getInt8Ty(V->getContext()),
+                                      PointeeTy->getPointerAddressSpace());
   auto *TypedPtrTy =
       TypedPointerType::get(PointeeTy, V->getType()->getPointerAddressSpace());
 
diff --git a/llvm/test/CodeGen/DirectX/global-variable.ll b/llvm/test/CodeGen/DirectX/global-variable.ll
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..66f3117f86314
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/CodeGen/DirectX/global-variable.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+; RUN: llc -mtriple=dxil-pc-shadermodel6.3-library --filetype=obj -o %t.dxbc %s
+; RUN: llvm-objcopy  --dump-section=DXIL=%t.bc %t.dxbc
+; RUN: llvm-dis -o - %t.bc | FileCheck %s
+
+; CHECK: @foo = common global ptr null
+ at foo = common global ptr null