* [PATCH] add some notes about pseudos being typeless
@ 2021-04-10 19:02 Luc Van Oostenryck
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From: Luc Van Oostenryck @ 2021-04-10 19:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-sparse; +Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck
Pseudos are untyped. It's usually OK because their type can nevertheless
be retrieved in a simple way. But it also complicates things and
worse in some cases the type is completely lost.
Tell a bit more about it in the TODO file.
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
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Documentation/TODO.md | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/TODO.md b/Documentation/TODO.md
index 3f00bb1104d1..bb25c714a212 100644
--- a/Documentation/TODO.md
+++ b/Documentation/TODO.md
@@ -56,6 +56,15 @@ Optimization
IR
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+* pseudos are untyped, it's usually OK but often it complicates things:
+ - PSEUDO_REGs are defined by instructions and their type is normally
+ retrievable via this defining instruction but in some case they're not:
+ for example, pseudos defined by ASM output.
+ - PSEUDO_ARGs are considered as defined by OP_ENTRY and are used like
+ for liveness trackability but their type can't simply be retrieved via
+ this instruction like PSEUDO_REGs are (with ->def->type).
+ - PSEUDO_VALs are completely typeless.
+ Maybe a few bits should be used to store some kind of low-level type.
* OP_SET should return a bool, always
* add IR instructions for va_arg() & friends
* add a possibility to import of file in "IR assembly"
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2.31.1
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