[LLVMdev] on type annotations of LLVM IR

[Rekha R]

Hi,

Currently i am doing an analysis which uses type info in conversion
instructions only. Hence the question.

Rekha

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:15 PM, David Chisnall <
David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 27 Oct 2014, at 17:40, Rekha R <rekharamapai at nitc.ac.in> wrote:
>
> > My question was from a machine independent code analyzer/optimizer
> perspective where types are of less importance. Hence I felt difficult to
> understand the IR with the types.
>
> I'm not sure why you think that types are of less importance there -
> that's where they're most used.  When you get to the back end, a lot of the
> type information is throw away, as back ends have a far more restricted set
> of legal types.
>
> David
>
>


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Rekha
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