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diff --git a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenFunction.h b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenFunction.h
index 831eedf9e47..11dce073c99 100644
--- a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenFunction.h
+++ b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenFunction.h
@@ -1916,13 +1916,36 @@ public:
LValueBaseInfo *BaseInfo = nullptr);
LValue EmitLoadOfPointerLValue(Address Ptr, const PointerType *PtrTy);
- /// CreateTempAlloca - This creates a alloca and inserts it into the entry
- /// block. The caller is responsible for setting an appropriate alignment on
+ /// CreateTempAlloca - This creates an alloca and inserts it into the entry
+ /// block if \p ArraySize is nullptr, otherwise inserts it at the current
+ /// insertion point of the builder. The caller is responsible for setting an
+ /// appropriate alignment on
/// the alloca.
- llvm::AllocaInst *CreateTempAlloca(llvm::Type *Ty,
- const Twine &Name = "tmp");
+ ///
+ /// \p ArraySize is the number of array elements to be allocated if it
+ /// is not nullptr.
+ ///
+ /// LangAS::Default is the address space of pointers to local variables and
+ /// temporaries, as exposed in the source language. In certain
+ /// configurations, this is not the same as the alloca address space, and a
+ /// cast is needed to lift the pointer from the alloca AS into
+ /// LangAS::Default. This can happen when the target uses a restricted
+ /// address space for the stack but the source language requires
+ /// LangAS::Default to be a generic address space. The latter condition is
+ /// common for most programming languages; OpenCL is an exception in that
+ /// LangAS::Default is the private address space, which naturally maps
+ /// to the stack.
+ ///
+ /// Because the address of a temporary is often exposed to the program in
+ /// various ways, this function will perform the cast by default. The cast
+ /// may be avoided by passing false as \p CastToDefaultAddrSpace; this is
+ /// more efficient if the caller knows that the address will not be exposed.
+ llvm::AllocaInst *CreateTempAlloca(llvm::Type *Ty, const Twine &Name = "tmp",
+ llvm::Value *ArraySize = nullptr);
Address CreateTempAlloca(llvm::Type *Ty, CharUnits align,
- const Twine &Name = "tmp");
+ const Twine &Name = "tmp",
+ llvm::Value *ArraySize = nullptr,
+ bool CastToDefaultAddrSpace = true);
/// CreateDefaultAlignedTempAlloca - This creates an alloca with the
/// default ABI alignment of the given LLVM type.
@@ -1957,9 +1980,12 @@ public:
Address CreateIRTemp(QualType T, const Twine &Name = "tmp");
/// CreateMemTemp - Create a temporary memory object of the given type, with
- /// appropriate alignment.
- Address CreateMemTemp(QualType T, const Twine &Name = "tmp");
- Address CreateMemTemp(QualType T, CharUnits Align, const Twine &Name = "tmp");
+ /// appropriate alignment. Cast it to the default address space if
+ /// \p CastToDefaultAddrSpace is true.
+ Address CreateMemTemp(QualType T, const Twine &Name = "tmp",
+ bool CastToDefaultAddrSpace = true);
+ Address CreateMemTemp(QualType T, CharUnits Align, const Twine &Name = "tmp",
+ bool CastToDefaultAddrSpace = true);
/// CreateAggTemp - Create a temporary memory object for the given
/// aggregate type.
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