The semantics for converting nested pointers between address
spaces are not very well defined. Some conversions which do not
really carry any meaning only produce warnings, and in some cases
warnings hide invalid conversions, such as 'global int*' to
'local float*'!
This patch changes the logic in checkPointerTypesForAssignment
and checkAddressSpaceCast to fail properly on implicit conversions
that should definitely not be permitted. We also dig deeper into the
pointer types and warn on explicit conversions where the address
space in a nested pointer changes, regardless of whether the address
space is compatible with the corresponding pointer nesting level
on the destination type.
Fixes PR39674!
Patch by ebevhan (Bevin Hansson)!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58236
llvm-svn: 360258
This patch allows us to perform incompatible pointer conversions when
resolving overloads in C. So, the following code will no longer fail to
compile (though it will still emit warnings, assuming the user hasn't
opted out of them):
```
void foo(char *) __attribute__((overloadable));
void foo(int) __attribute__((overloadable));
void callFoo() {
unsigned char bar[128];
foo(bar); // selects the char* overload.
}
```
These conversions are ranked below all others, so:
A. Any other viable conversion will win out
B. If we had another incompatible pointer conversion in the example
above (e.g. `void foo(int *)`), we would complain about
an ambiguity.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24113
llvm-svn: 280553
Anastasia Stulova