[LLVMdev] GenericValue changes from 1.8 to 2.0

[Chris Lattner]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Sarah Thompson wrote:

> Do I understand correctly that there is nothing that the current gcc
> front end generates that wouldn't fit an old-style GenericValue? I'm
> wondering if this might be an interim approach that would avoid me
> needing to rewrite huge amounts of code, and since we're not likely to
> be supporting anything other than C and C++ in the forseeable future, it
> makes some sense. Model checking VHDL and Verilog can come later. :-)

Right now, the only interesting thing is 128-bit integers.  You can get 
these on 64-bit targets if you use some funky GCC extensions.  Normal code 
only produces "usual" sized integers.

-Chris

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