[llvm-dev] Opaque Pointers Help Wanted

Nicolai Hähnle via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jun 22 00:07:29 PDT 2021


Hi Arthur,

What's the status of the C API? I don't see any mention of it in the
transition plan.

Cheers,
Nicolai

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 6:03 PM Arthur Eubanks via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> For the opaque pointers project,
> https://llvm.org/docs/OpaquePointers.html#transition-plan contains high
> level steps for what to do before we can enable opaque pointers. (Looks
> like the page hasn't been rebuilt in a while,
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/docs/OpaquePointers.rst#transition-plan
> contains some more concrete steps)
>
> Essentially almost all of the work boils down to figuring out how to
> remove calls to `PointerType::getElementType()` and
> `Type::getPointerElementType()`. Everything else derives from that.
>
> Any help with this is welcome and appreciated!
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