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...;no-op" cast in the sense that there isn't any math involved; it's not a statement about the number of necessary machine instructions. -Eli -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20130816/b0af40be/attachment.html>

Hi, >From http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#bitcast-to-instruction: The 'bitcast' instruction converts value to type ty2. It is always a no-op cast because no bits change with this conversion. The conversion is done as if the value had been stored to memory and read back as type ty2. Pointer (or vector of pointers) types may only be converted to other pointer (or vector of pointers)