On 1/5/2021 12:39 PM, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 09:56:05AM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote: >> On 12/28/2020 1:33 PM, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 05:18:50PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: >>>> >>>> Patch #16 also looks good, but I would need to study it a bit more >>>> than I have time available to be totally happy. It does not seem >>>> to be handling the 'lowering' of 'odd bit-sized' symbols created in >>>> the previous patch (to answer my own question), so I would have to >>>> apply the patches (or fetch the above branch) to study some more. >>> >>> Well, patch #16 doesn't contain the lowering, it kinda just enables >>> the last bits to support (without out-of-bound access) packed structures >>> including packed bitfields. >>> >> >> What does the 'lowering' gain us? Or, in other words, what is still >> missing after this series? > > As a static checker, nothing is missing and the series is now mainlined. > > The 'lowering' only matters if you want to somehow translate the > instructions used in the IR (Intermediate Representation) into > instructions for a more concrete machine, because now there are things > like: 'do a load of a 5-byte word'. > > -- Luc > Ok thanks, that makes sense. - Jake
