[LLVMdev] Proposal: intp type

[Chris Lattner]

On Nov 13, 2009, at 6:46 AM, David Greene wrote:

> On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:48, Chris Lattner wrote:
>
>>> There is also the question of whether intptrs should be allowed as
>>> *members* of vectors. I have no opinion on this, except to say that
>>> it probably only makes sense in situations where you can also have
>>> vectors of pointers.
>>
>> Vectors of pointers are not allowed.  I think disallowing intptr in
>> vectors makes perfect sense.
>
> Then we're going to need to fix this in the IR fairly soon.  We  
> won't be
> able to support architectures like Larrabee nicely until we do.

Let me rephrase: I think it is fine to ignore vectors in the first  
iteration, we can always add support for them later.

-Chris