Currently, opaque pointers are supported in two forms: The
-force-opaque-pointers mode, where all pointers are opaque and
typed pointers do not exist. And as a simple ptr type that can
coexist with typed pointers.
This patch removes support for the mixed mode. You either get
typed pointers, or you get opaque pointers, but not both. In the
(current) default mode, using ptr is forbidden. In -opaque-pointers
mode, all pointers are opaque.
The motivation here is that the mixed mode introduces additional
issues that don't exist in fully opaque mode. D105155 is an example
of a design problem. Looking at D109259, it would probably need
additional work to support mixed mode (e.g. to generate GEPs for
typed base but opaque result). Mixed mode will also end up
inserting many casts between i8* and ptr, which would require
significant additional work to consistently avoid.
I don't think the mixed mode is particularly valuable, as it
doesn't align with our end goal. The only thing I've found it to
be moderately useful for is adding some opaque pointer tests in
between typed pointer tests, but I think we can live without that.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109290
As suggested on D105733, this adds a verifier rule that calls to
intrinsics must match the signature of the intrinsic.
Without opaque pointers this is automatically enforced for all
calls, because the pointer types need to match. If the signatures
don't match, a pointer bitcast has to be inserted. For intrinsics
in particular, such bitcasts are not legal, because the address of
intrinsics cannot be taken.
With opaque pointers, there are no more pointer bitcasts, so it's
generally possible for the call and the callee signature to differ.
However, for intrinsics we still want to enforce that the signatures
must match, the same as was done before through the address taken
check.
We can't enforce this more generally for non-intrinsics, because
calls with mismatched signatures at the very least can legally
occur in unreachable code, and might also be valid in some other
cases, depending on how exactly the signatures differ.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106013
Nikita Popov