LLVM trunk now has opaque pointers by default

Johan j at j.nl
Mon Jun 6 17:42:36 UTC 2022


See: https://reviews.llvm.org/rG41d5033eb162

"""
This enabled opaque pointers by default in LLVM. The effect of 
this
is twofold:

If IR that contains *neither* explicit ptr nor %T* types is 
passed to tools, we will now use opaque pointer mode, unless 
-opaque-pointers=0 has been explicitly passed.
Users of LLVM as a library will now default to opaque pointers. 
It is possible to opt-out by calling setOpaquePointers(false) on 
LLVMContext.
A cmake option to toggle this default will not be provided. 
Frontends
or other tools that want to (temporarily) keep using typed 
pointers
should disable opaque pointers via LLVMContext.
"""

Thought it's good to put that here so more people know how to 
change the default back to older LLVM versions, in case we need 
it. We probably want to disable it for the near future, and then 
update all our tests in one go and stop testing older LLVMs that 
don't have opaque pointer support?

-Johan


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