efriedma added inline comments.

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Comment at: lib/CodeGen/CGExprConstant.cpp:1340
+          return C;
+        return getNullPtr(PT, DestType);
       }
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yaxunl wrote:
> yaxunl wrote:
> > rjmccall wrote:
> > > efriedma wrote:
> > > > Consider code like the following:
> > > > 
> > > >     int x = 0;
> > > >     auto y1 = (__specialaddrspace int*)0;
> > > >     auto y2 = (__specialaddrspace int*)((void)0, 0);
> > > >     auto y3 = (__specialaddrspace int*)x;
> > > > 
> > > > How do you expect these three cases to behave?  (The first case 
> > > > involves a C null pointer constant, the second and third cases are 
> > > > different ways of writing a general int->ptr conversion.)
> > > Yeah, I think you probably need to fix APValue to be unambiguous about 
> > > whether the value is a formal null pointer (CK_NullToPointer) or just a 
> > > cast of an integer (CK_IntegralToPointer).  It looks like 
> > > PointerExprEvaluator will generate the exact same value for both.
> > It seems the current implementation generates the correct IR.
> > 
> > I tried the following sample and I saw correct IR generated.
> > 
> > 
> > ```
> > private int* test_cast_0_to_ptr(void) {
> >   return (private int*)0;
> > }
> > 
> > private int* test_cast_int_to_ptr1(void) {
> >   return (private int*)((void)0, 0);
> > }
> > 
> > private int* test_cast_int_to_ptr2(void) {
> >   int x = 0;
> >   return (private int*)x;
> > }
> > 
> > ```
> > 
> > The dumped AST is
> > 
> > 
> > ```
> > |-FunctionDecl 0x95fdc88 <ptr.cl:3:1, line:5:1> line:3:14 
> > test_cast_0_to_ptr 'int *(void)'
> > | `-CompoundStmt 0x95fdde8 <col:39, line:5:1>
> > |   `-ReturnStmt 0x95fddd0 <line:4:3, col:24>
> > |     `-CStyleCastExpr 0x95fdda8 <col:10, col:24> 'int *' <NullToPointer>
> > |       `-IntegerLiteral 0x95fdd70 <col:24> 'int' 0
> > |-FunctionDecl 0x95fdea0 <line:13:1, line:15:1> line:13:14 
> > test_cast_int_to_ptr1 'int *(void)'
> > | `-CompoundStmt 0x95fe098 <col:42, line:15:1>
> > |   `-ReturnStmt 0x95fe080 <line:14:3, col:35>
> > |     `-CStyleCastExpr 0x95fe058 <col:10, col:35> 'int *' 
> > <IntegralToPointer>
> > |       `-ParenExpr 0x95fe038 <col:24, col:35> 'int'
> > |         `-BinaryOperator 0x95fe010 <col:25, col:34> 'int' ','
> > |           |-CStyleCastExpr 0x95fdf78 <col:25, col:31> 'void' <ToVoid>
> > |           | `-IntegerLiteral 0x95fdf48 <col:31> 'int' 0
> > |           `-IntegerLiteral 0x95fdfa0 <col:34> 'int' 0
> > `-FunctionDecl 0x95fe150 <line:19:1, line:22:1> line:19:14 
> > test_cast_int_to_ptr2 'int *(void)'
> >   `-CompoundStmt 0x9620130 <col:42, line:22:1>
> >     |-DeclStmt 0x9620080 <line:20:3, col:12>
> >     | `-VarDecl 0x95fe210 <col:3, col:11> col:7 used x 'int' cinit
> >     |   `-IntegerLiteral 0x9620060 <col:11> 'int' 0
> >     `-ReturnStmt 0x9620118 <line:21:3, col:24>
> >       `-CStyleCastExpr 0x96200f0 <col:10, col:24> 'int *' 
> > <IntegralToPointer>
> > ```
> > 
> > Since only CK_NullToPointer is translated to null pointer through 
> > getNullPtr, CK_IntegralToPointer will result in either zero-valued pointer 
> > or inttoptr, the generated IR is correct.
> Basically in the second and third case the destination type is not pointer, 
> so they do not need to be emitted as null pointer. If a literal 0 is casted 
> to a pointer type, then it should be emitted as a null pointer.
What happens in the following case?

    static private int* x = (private int*)((void)0, 0);


https://reviews.llvm.org/D26196



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