[LLVMdev] Address space extension

[Matt Arsenault]

On Aug 10, 2013, at 6:07 , Iain Sandoe <iain at codesourcery.com> wrote:

> 
>> RELATED PROBLEMS
>> 1) addrspacecast support: approved but not implemented yet. It will
>> cleanup address spaces conversions localized in a single instruction
>> allowing each target to define the semantic...
> 
> Is anyone known to be working on this?

If people agree that this is necessary, I can do this. I thought there were objections when that was originally proposed, and the alternative was ptrtoint + inttoptr.

> I see that global data items are correctly sized according to my pointer definitions - but that all operations are carried out as if pointers were sized for address space 0.
This is what I'm working on now