[LLVMdev] Non-standard byte sizes

[David Given]

On 28/01/11 14:14, Ken Dyck wrote:
[...]
> I've developed an LLVM back end for a DSP with 24-bit word-addressable
> memory, basically by defining the alignment of i8 to be the word size
> of the machine. So it _is_ possible.

I think I might have an easier job of it, as I don't want to use any of
the standard C sizes at all --- my char will be ~64 bits wide (in fact,
my hypothetical VM stores all values as doubles) and will occupy one
complete storage cell, so I don't need to do anything as weird as
storing values of one size in a storage cell of another size.

From what you've said it sounds like all I need to do is to do the right
thing when lowering getelementptr, and it will all Just Work.
Unfortunately I know from experience that clang doesn't always use
getelementptr when doing point arithmetic --- how can I stop it trying
to advance a pointer by one (64-bit) char by adding eight to it?

(Also, how do I change the size of the built-in types in clang? I could
swear I once saw some command-line options to do this, but can't find
them now. And I can't find any documentation for clang's -cc1 mode...)

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