llvm dev - Feb 2016 - [PATCH] D17497: Support arbitrary address space for intrinsics

> 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.

-Matt

> On 2016-Feb-24, at 10:40, Matt Arsenault via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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?

On 02/24/2016 11:14 AM, Duncan P. N. Exon Smith via llvm-dev
wrote:
> Typeless pointers will still have an address space, right?
>
Yes