[LLVMdev] Documentation of malloc/free

[Jon Harrop]

On Monday 07 December 2009 17:55:44 Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Garrison Venn wrote:
> > So I gather this means that malloc was removed from the IR because
> > there are platforms that don't have non-stack allocation semantics?
>
> No, it was removed because it wasn't necessary, and the malloc
> 'instruction' didn't support 64-bit targets.

BTW, what is the state of having to index into structs using i32 and not i64 
even on a 64-bit platform? Is that due to be changed as well or is there some 
reason for requiring an i32?

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