[llvm-dev] [PATCH] D17497: Support arbitrary address space for intrinsics

Duncan P. N. Exon Smith via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Feb 24 11:14:22 PST 2016


> On 2016-Feb-24, at 10:40, Matt Arsenault via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>> On Feb 24, 2016, at 09:32, David Chisnall via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> 
>> My gut feeling is that it’s not worth it.  When we move from typed to untyped pointers, we’re going to change the mangling from something like p200i8 to just p200, which is already quite a bit cleaner, and actually looks cleaner to me than the version proposed in this patch.
>> 
>> David
> 
> +1 
> 
> The prettiness of intrinsic mangling is irrelevant, especially since this will all change with typeless pointers anyway.

Typeless pointers will still have an address space, right?


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