[LLVMdev] Named Address Spaces

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 25, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Gobi wrote:

>> We plan to use the address space info in backend to support the "rom"
>> address space for our target in near future.
>
> This will likely relate to what I am doing, however, my manager and  
> I are
> currently trying to plan the entire toolchain, and key aspects  
> involve both
> propogating debug information and verifying variables using named  
> address
> spaces.

Debug info is represented with explicit metadata in the llvm IR, its  
representation of addr spaces would be orthogonal to how codegen and  
optimizers hack on it.

-Chris