[Mlir-commits] [mlir] [mlir][core|ptr] Add `PtrLikeTypeInterface` and casting ops to the `ptr` dialect (PR #137469)

[Mehdi Amini]

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@@ -376,6 +376,20 @@ BaseMemRefType BaseMemRefType::cloneWith(std::optional<ArrayRef<int64_t>> shape,
   return builder;
 }
 
+FailureOr<PtrLikeTypeInterface>
+BaseMemRefType::clonePtrWith(Attribute memorySpace,
+                             std::optional<Type> elementType) const {
+  Type eTy = elementType ? *elementType : getElementType();
+  if (llvm::dyn_cast<UnrankedMemRefType>(*this))
+    return cast<PtrLikeTypeInterface>(
+        UnrankedMemRefType::get(eTy, memorySpace));
+
+  MemRefType::Builder builder(llvm::cast<MemRefType>(*this));
+  builder.setElementType(eTy);
+  builder.setMemorySpace(memorySpace);
+  return cast<PtrLikeTypeInterface>(static_cast<MemRefType>(builder));
+}
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joker-eph wrote:

This does not seem to carry the memref layout informations?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/137469