On 05/10/2012 12:42 PM, Christopher Li wrote: > The early sparse back end does not care about preserve the > ctype in the back end. The type has been simplify to bit size. > So the pointer type conversion which has the same bit size, > it does not need to generate any back end machine code > e.g. x86 instruction to perform the conversion. I think that > is why it is skipped. > > The recent changes, especially the llvm back end care more > about preserving the ctype in the back end instruction level. As far as I can tell, the type can be recovered reliably, one way or the other, and missing pointer cast was one of a few (if not only one) source of type loss in the instruction stream (e.g., with those pointers returned by function call as demonstrated). > The patch is applied. Thanks. -- Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
