[LLVMdev] Type Legalizer Question.

[sanjiv gupta]

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> So you have a i16 register class which makes the type legal. You can  
> make loads and stores legal (can you?). But you will have to custom  
> lower all other i16 operations. This will work, but it requires a lot  
> of target specific code.

True. If we add the i16 reg class we will need to write a lot of target specific code.
To avoid that our idea was not to tell the legalizer about the i16 regclass and let it expand everything but ignore the pointers.

- Sanjiv

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