Thanks Doug and Tanya,
I tend to agree that it's a big change without much benefit, so I'll just drop 
this change.

Guy Benyei


-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Gregor [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 02:36
To: Benyei, Guy
Cc: Joey Gouly; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Patch]OpenCL size_t and ptrdiff_t as builtin types


On Feb 6, 2013, at 12:13 PM, "Benyei, Guy" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Joey.
> Any other comments about this fix, or should I go and commit it?

The patch itself is clearly incomplete. What are the promotion rules for size_t 
and ptrdiff_t, and how does overloading work for them? Where are the tests to 
verify that size_t and ptrdiff_t actually behave as they should?

However, that's not relevant right now. What matters is the reason for making 
such a change in the first place. Only two reasons were given:

  1) OpenCL restricts the use of size_t and ptrdiff_t for kernel arguments. 
However, that restriction could trivially be enforced by looking at the sugar 
that Clang maintains on the type.

  2) OpenCL makes size_t and ptrdiff_t keywords. Even if that were true, it is 
not actually relevant. If they are supposed to be keywords, we could add them 
as keywords and map them down to a synthesized typedef of the appropriate 
underlying type.

So we're left with a *drastic* change to the type system with no reasonable 
justification.

        - Doug

> Thanks
>   Guy Benyei
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joey Gouly [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 16:35
> To: Benyei, Guy; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Patch]OpenCL size_t and ptrdiff_t as builtin types
> 
> Hi Guy,
> 
> This patch looks good to me.
> 
> I changed the code a bit around your changes in lib/Sema/SemaDecl.cpp, but it 
> will be easy to fix.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joey
> 
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Benyei, Guy
> Sent: 05 February 2013 13:11
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Patch]OpenCL size_t and ptrdiff_t as builtin types
> 
> Any comments on this patch?
> 
> Thanks
>   Guy Benyei
> 
> 
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Benyei, Guy
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 22:46
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Patch]OpenCL size_t and ptrdiff_t as builtin types
> 
> Hello,
> Attached a patch that makes OpenCL size_t and ptrdiff_t types Clang builtin 
> types.
> In OpenCL size_t is not a library define, but an actual keyword, a type that 
> is available without special includes, and it also has some specific 
> restriction.
> 
> Please review
> 
> Thanks
>    Guy Benyei
> 
> 
> 
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