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2020 Jul 13
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Why are GEPs type based?
Hi,
I've been wondering why LLVMs GEP instructions are based on types, rather
than encoding the raw address calculation as a base pointer plus some
scaled offsets (still in the form of a GEP, to retain provenance).
The type information does not seem particularly useful (shouldn't be used
as an optimization base, because struct layouts lie), but increases the
non-canonical IR space (there