[LLVMdev] Moving towards a singular pointer type

[Chandler Carruth]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> It also wouldn't be too hard to accept the old .ll syntax, since the
>>> upgrade path mostly discards information.
>>>
>>
>> I agree here. If only because of th eregression test suite, and the
>> *incredible* tediousness of updating the pointers. The auto-upgrade for
>> this kind of thing is essentially perfect.
>>
>
> I think we should definitely script an update of the test suite if we do
> this. I really don't want to deal with reading old style IR in 98% of
> existing tests.
>

Oh, we should. I just don't want to have to lock-step everything.

Also, there are a *lot* of out-of-tree test suites. =] It'd be nice if they
could upgrade when convenient rather than in a hurry.
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