From 19b569fc08dbd968ce96149dac87857e4f336918 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Reid Spencer <rspencer@reidspencer.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:08:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Explain that bitcast can only cast a pointer to another pointer. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@33041 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- docs/LangRef.html | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/LangRef.html b/docs/LangRef.html index caaf983ef97..b3cc8db5606 100644 --- a/docs/LangRef.html +++ b/docs/LangRef.html @@ -3090,7 +3090,8 @@ nothing is done (<i>no-op cast</i>).</p> <p>The '<tt>bitcast</tt>' instruction takes a value to cast, which must be a first class value, and a type to cast it to, which must also be a <a href="#t_firstclass">first class</a> type. The bit sizes of <tt>value</tt> -and the destination type, <tt>ty2</tt>, must be identical.</p> +and the destination type, <tt>ty2</tt>, must be identical. If the source +type is a pointer, the destination type must also be a pointer.</p> <h5>Semantics:</h5> <p>The '<tt>bitcast</tt>' instruction converts <tt>value</tt> to type