[LLVMdev] How to handle size_t in front ends?

[Chris Lattner]

On May 6, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

> 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?

What would this be used for?  How is it defined?  How does arithmetic  
work on it?

-Chris