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On Jul 21, 2008, at 11:58 PM, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: >> >> You probably want to somehow extend TargetData to encode the address >> space descriptions, including pointer sizes and address space >> relationships. > Hmm, you have an excellent point there, pointer sizes could indeed > easily have > different sizes in different address spaces... That would make

Hi Gordon, > TargetData is a concrete class, part of the middle-end. It describes > parts of the the target's ABI. It allows target-independent passes to > do things like decide whether x[1] and ((char *) x)[4] alias. This is > possible without actually linking with the code generator for the > relevant target. TargetData can be encoded in the LLVM IR, e.g. target

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