[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] [RFC] Introducing a byte type to LLVM

[James Courtier-Dutton via llvm-dev]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 00:02, Nicolai Hähnle via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> ...
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 7:40 PM Harald van Dijk via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> I second this.
>
> I feel like the entire discussion is extremely confused and confusing because there is lack of clarity about what values are in fact carried by the types i<N>, ptr (assuming untyped pointers already), and the proposed b<N>. There are statements about "whether a b<N> contains a pointer or an integer" without a clear definition of what any of that really means.
>

+1 on the confused and confusing point. :-)