[LLVMdev] non-signed integer Type

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Fri Sep 19 16:41:38 PDT 2008


On Sep 19, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Scott Graham wrote:

> Hi
>
> Is there any rationale written down for why integer types don't carry
> (perhaps optional) signs somewhere? I feel like I might have read it
> somewhere before (and I see that it used to exist pre 2.0), but I
> can't find anything now.

There is some motivation in this talk:
http://llvm.org/pubs/2007-07-25-LLVM-2.0-and-Beyond.html

-Chris



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