[LLVMdev] How to handle size_t in front ends?

[james woodyatt]

On May 8, 2008, at 10:17, Gordon Henriksen wrote:
>
> The advantage provided is improved portability of bitcode and (very  
> slightly) reduced complexity in front-end compilers. [...]


It would also make the human-readable format more readable by actual  
humans, which might be the best reason of all for adding some kind of  
pointer-integer type.  It could make the work of maintaining and  
improving language front ends a little easier.  Every little bit there  
helps.


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j h woodyatt <jhw at conjury.org>