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In https://reviews.llvm.org/D26229 I've proposed dropping support for old style scalar TBAA metadata. Here is the proposed commit message: "We've had support for auto upgrading old style scalar TBAA access metadata into the "new" struct path aware TBAA metadata for 3 years now. The only way to actually generate old style TBAA was explicitly through the IRBuilder API. I

...ng step that would have auto-upgraded the IR. In this > case, the quickest way to keep your frontend working with the new > representation is to change > > I->setMetadata(LLVMContext::MD_tbaa, MD); > > to > > I->setMetadata(LLVMContext::MD_tbaa, llvm::UpgradeTBAANode(*MD)); > > llvm::UpgradeTBAA is present on tip-of-tree. If your version of > LLVM is too old to have that utility then copy/pasting it in from > tip-of-tree into your code base should work fine. > > -- Sanjoy > > Sanjoy Das wrote: > > In https://reviews.llvm...