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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] sparse, llvm: Make function declaration
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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:50:19 +1100
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Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 17:33 -0800, Christopher Li wrote:
> 
> Do you mean take a pseudo then shoot out a llvm ref? The pseudo is
> the more general form, a pseudo can come from symbol node or
> expressions (function pointers). 

But in both cases the type itself is a struct symbol isn't it ? Either a
function def as Linus patch provides or base_type which is a struct
symbol too....

Sure if we have a consistent pseudo->type that covers both cases then we
can just pass that along, I don't mind.

Cheers,
Ben.