[LLVMdev] Troubling promotion of return value to Integer ...

[Evan Cheng]

On May 29, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Alireza.Moshtaghi at microchip.com wrote:
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> 4) There will be 4 new function attributes:
>   sign_ext_from_i8, sign_ext_from_i16
>   zero_ext_from_i8, zero_ext_from_i16
>   These attributes will be placed on the function CALL node by
> front-end
>   to inform the backend about such promotions and enable optimization
> of
>   return value. This should be sufficient for direct and indirect  
> call.
>   (syntax of these attributes to be defined)

Should we go one step further and provide an attribute whose value is  
the "original type" before the extension?

Evan

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> Am I capturing everything?
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> -Ali.
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