[LLVMdev] an llvm-gcc bug

[Devang Patel]

On Feb 15, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:

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> On Feb 15, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Devang Patel wrote:
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>> On Feb 15, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:
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>>>>> Alternatively I can take the Padding bit into account in the
>>>>> StructType::get code somehow.  Anyone have a strong opinion?
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't it be a map from the gcc type to the padding info?
>>>> That said, you can get rid of the padding info as far as I'm
>>>> concerned.  However Chris might have a different opinion - I
>>>> think he introduced it.
>>>
>>> I don't think I introduced it (was it Devang?).
>>
>> Yup. PR 1278
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> Ok!  Can you please fix it to index by GCC type?  There is a many to
> one mapping between gcc types and llvm types.

This is tricky and probably won't work. Padding info is in llvm struct  
type and CopyAggregate() is operating on llvm type. There is not any  
way to map llvm type back to gcc type.  Am I missing something ?

-
Devang