[LLVMdev] How to handle size_t in front ends?

[Mike Stump]

On May 7, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Gabor Greif wrote:
> When reading this thread it occured to me that
> one could reserve i0 as an integer type that
> is semantically identical to iN where N is
> the size of (i8*) in bits.
>
> But on the other hand I just woke up, so this
> might be a silly idea :-)

The word opaque comes to mind.  The basic question is, do you want  
people to be able to understand this stuff, or is it more like the  
bitcode file, you don't care that it is unreadable?