mibintc added a comment.

In D101640#2757316 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D101640#2757316>, @aaron.ballman 
wrote:

> In D101640#2757178 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D101640#2757178>, @mibintc wrote:
>
>> In D101640#2757039 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D101640#2757039>, 
>> @aaron.ballman wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks! The last remaining question to me is whether this should be a 
>>> target-specific option or whether it makes sense to allow it as an option 
>>> for any target.
>>
>> I thought the patch may be more acceptable to the community if we restricted 
>> it.
>
> I think we usually prefer more general solutions to target-specific ones, 
> typically. Given that the functionality is generally useful for easing 
> porting projects from 32- to 64-bits and that the code is simpler without the 
> target-specific bits, my preference is to go with the general solution unless 
> someone else has objections.

Actually I thought about it some more and I don't know, generally, in what 
condition to enable the option. For example, on x86 we don't want any 
transformation made, and on intel64 we do want the implicit cast inserted.


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