On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Marek Polacek <pola...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 01:48:29PM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
>> > +  TI_POINTER_SIZED_TYPE,
>>
>> I'd rather see TI_UINTPTR_TYPE and TI_INTPTR_TYPE (note they might
>> not be exactly of POINTER_SIZE but larger).
>
> We already have [u]intptr_type_node -- but only in c-family/, thus
> ubsan.c/asan.c cannot use those nodes.  I can create both
> TI_SIGNED_POINTER_SIZED_TYPE and TI_UNSIGNED_POINTER_SIZED_TYPE,
> but we currently need only the latter...

So simply move them to the middle-end.  The set of C language types that
define the target ABI should be constructed and maintained by the middle-end
(you need it for various builtins anyway)

Richard.

>> TI_POINTER_SIZED_TYPE is ambiguous, too - what's its signedness?
>
> Unsigned.  But yeah, one can't tell by just looking at the name.
>
>> All around the compiler we use sizetype and ssizetype to munge pointers
>> (well, not strictly correct as targets may define sizetype to be 
>> larger/smaller
>> than actual pointers).
>
> I see.
>
>         Marek

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