aaron.ballman added a comment.

In D141472#4106091 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D141472#4106091>, @tbaeder wrote:

>> Member pointers (for functions or for data) are weird in that they're not 
>> the typical pointer width. They're actually a pointer and between 
>> one-to-three other fields in a trenchcoat, depending on the circumstances. 
>> You generally need the function pointer, but you also may need various 
>> offsets (to this, to the vtable, etc). There's some more information about 
>> how it's done in MSVC (which is different from Itanium ABI, but we can do 
>> what we want for the constant expression interpreter): 
>> https://rants.vastheman.com/2021/09/21/msvc/
>>
>> I don't think there's a problem with `FunctionPointer` per se, I'm more 
>> wondering are you planning to also add a `MemberPointer` type or are you 
>> planning to reuse `FunctionPointer` to handle function members (and 
>> presumably something else for data members)?
>>
>> As for virtual functions in general, the standard has rules: 
>> http://eel.is/c++draft/expr.const#5.6 and http://eel.is/c++draft/expr.const#7
>
> I was thinking that the `dynamicDispatch` in https://godbolt.org/z/rf9Ks77Wo 
> would be a good reproducer since the actual function to call is only known 
> when calling `dynamicDispatch()`, but that example already works when doing a 
> few changes to `classify()` the right types and adding a `if 
> (BO->isPtrMemOP()) { return visit(RHS); }` to `VisitBinaryOperator()`.

That is a reasonable test, but probably not sufficient as nothing is really 
testing the layout of those objects (the calls return a constant). How about a 
test like: https://godbolt.org/z/rhhhvxYxf where there are offsets to member 
variables involved?


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