Re: [avr-llvm-devel] Load / Store

[John M. <ato...@gm...>]

> >       Another thing, i dont know how feasible is doing this,
> > but should we make program and data space addrs transparent
> > to the user?
> >
> >
>
 On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Weddington, Eric <Eri...@at...
> wrote:

> >
> > Yes I believe that would be a useful feature.
> > I think we should try as much as possible without, of course,
> > violating any language standards.
> > It would allow users to write more portable/generic code.
> > We probable should have a command line option to
> > enable/disable this so users have more control.
> > LLVM has an address space qualifier mechanism already so I
> > don't think it will take too much work.
>
> I definitely agree with the above, except for the part about a command line
> option: I would suggest that there be no command line option for this. It
> will just be extra work for something that I doubt anyone will ever use (a
> command-line option). Just implement the feature.
>

Eric,

I think transparently placing, for example, const qualified objects in flash
will only take creating an LLVM transformation Pass. Which means the extra
work has already been done by the LLVM Pass Framework. Now if we have to do
work in the front end then I can see your point.

--John