[LLVMdev] PointerType API Change

[Christopher Lamb]

On Dec 17, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Gordon Henriksen wrote:

> On 2007-12-17, at 00:31, Christopher Lamb wrote:
>
>> The API for getting PointerType objects has just changed to make  
>> Embedded C address space information explicit. The old semantics  
>> of PointerType::get() now apply to PointerType::getUnqual(), which  
>> returns a pointer in the generic address space. PointerType::get()  
>> now requires both a type and an address space.
>>
>> The clang, llvm-gcc-4.0, and llvm-gcc-4.2, and internal llvm  
>> projects have all been updated to take this API change into account.
>>
>> The only current omission is the C interface to the LLVM type  
>> system, which has not yet been updated to preserve or expose  
>> address spaces on PointerType's. I'm hoping for a little help with  
>> that.
>
> Hi Cristopher,
>
> I ran aground of this mildly:
>
> $ Release/bin/llvm-as <<END_OF_LL | Release/bin/llvm-dis
>         %Gnric = type i8*
>         %Qual3 = type i8 addrspace(3)*
>         %Qual5 = type i8 addrspace(5)*
> END_OF_LL
> ; ModuleID = '<stdin>'
> 	%Gnric = type i8*
> 	%Qual3 = type i8*
> 	%Qual5 = type i8*
>
> It looks to be purely a problem in llvm-dis output since the three  
> types would fold internally to the llvm-dis process if the  
> qualifiers did not survive through the input phase.
>
> Please revert r45097 when you get this working.

Fixed http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of- 
Mon-20071217/056441.html
--
Christopher Lamb



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