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

[Evan Cheng]

I think the "answer" is yes. Given the attributes are a bitfield, it  
would be difficult to encode any arbitrary type. I am happy with just  
adding sign_ext_from_i1 and zero_ext_from_i1 for now. That's  
progress! :-)

Evan

On Jun 9, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Alireza.Moshtaghi at microchip.com wrote:

>
>>
>> Yes, this would be much nicer.  The only issue is that attributes are
>> currently a bitfield, so they can't be parameterized. I'd love to see
>> this get fixed.
>
> Does this also apply to Evan's proposal?
>
> A.
>
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