Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:41:23 -0800
From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: pgsql: Track LLVM 15 changes.
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Hi,

On 2022-02-16 09:18:53 +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Yeah I mentioned this problem in the other thread.  I got as far as
> finding this write-up:
> 
> https://llvm.org/docs/OpaquePointers.html

Given that major parts of llvm (clang alone contains ~1k references) aren't
yet transitioned, I wonder if should silence them for now?


> I haven't yet tried to work out what we really need to do, but I'm
> planning to try.  Possibly requires a bit more book keeping on our
> part, since eg LLVMGetElementType() is going away.

I can't yet really tell whether it'll be simpler because pointer types aren't
a thing anymore, or harder because the llvmjit_types.c mechanism won't work
well anymore.

Greetings,

Andres Freund