[LLVMdev] Modeling 16-bit pointer registers for an 8-bit target

[Sanjiv.Gupta at microchip.com]

Pointer size on our target is 16-bits, and we have two 16-bit registers
that can be used only to hold pointers (indirect addresses). 

 

All operations on the target are 8-bit operations, so it takes two 8-bit
loads to load these pointer registers. 

 

We want LLVM to automatically expand all types to 8-bit values.

 

The problem is that LLVM does not expand GlobalAddresses, which are
16-bit values.

This in turn means that you have to specify a 16-bit register class, and
once you specify a 16-bit register class, LLVM does not further expand
16-bit values.

 

Any suggestions on how to model this into LLVM?

 

TIA,

Sanjiv

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