[LLVMdev] How to handle size_t in front ends?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 23:18 -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
> > 1) Is there a way to declare an integer type in the IR that represents
> > "an int the same size as a pointer" without specifying exactly the  
> > size
> > of a pointer?
> 
> No.

Chris:

There are other languages that specify a "word" type along these lines.
Would it be worth considering adding such a type to the IR, or is there
a reason not to do so that I am failing to see?

shap