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>I am assuming a 16-bit value will be stored in a pair of 8-bit > registers? One related question is how to make sure that the correct register pair is allocated to the16-bit quantity when using two 8-bit operations. In other words, how we can make sure that the 16-bit pointer is stored into [AH, AL] and not in [AH, BL] ? i.e. GR8 = [ AH, BH, AL, BL]; GR16 = [AX, BX] ; // AX, BX are subreg pairs of ah,al and bh, bl the DAG looks like Wrapper:i16 (GR16) =...

I am assuming a 16-bit value will be stored in a pair of 8-bit registers? If so, add pseudo register which represent pairs of 8-bit registers. Add them to a pseudo register class. This allows you to mark i16 "legal". The difficult part is then to figure out how to lower these 16-bit operations into 8-bit ones. You probably need to custom lower a bunch of them with target

> -----Original Message----- > From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On > Behalf Of Bill Wendling > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 4:38 AM > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:12 AM, <Sachin.Punyani at microchip.com> wrote: > > What changes would be required in LLVM to support illegal pointer type? > > > Hi Sachin, >