ThreadLocal: Return a mutable pointer if templated with a non-const type

[oota-llvm.git] / include / llvm / Support / PointerLikeTypeTraits.h

diff --git a/include/llvm/Support/PointerLikeTypeTraits.h b/include/llvm/Support/PointerLikeTypeTraits.h
index b0edd3bd09f99d8049cf27b9d21a5d8f82366c85..8370821392146130de2b5bfa1441cda3c35873ba 100644 (file)
--- a/include/llvm/Support/PointerLikeTypeTraits.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Support/PointerLikeTypeTraits.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ public:
     return static_cast<T*>(P);
   }
   
-  /// Note, we assume here that malloc returns objects at least 8-byte aligned.
+  /// Note, we assume here that malloc returns objects at least 4-byte aligned.
   /// However, this may be wrong, or pointers may be from something other than
   /// malloc.  In this case, you should specialize this template to reduce this.
   ///
@@ -50,12 +50,16 @@ public:
 // Provide PointerLikeTypeTraits for const pointers.
 template<typename T>
 class PointerLikeTypeTraits<const T*> {
+  typedef PointerLikeTypeTraits<T*> NonConst;
+
 public:
-  static inline const void *getAsVoidPointer(const T* P) { return P; }
+  static inline const void *getAsVoidPointer(const T* P) {
+    return NonConst::getAsVoidPointer(const_cast<T*>(P));
+  }
   static inline const T *getFromVoidPointer(const void *P) {
-    return static_cast<const T*>(P);
+    return NonConst::getFromVoidPointer(const_cast<void*>(P));
   }
-  enum { NumLowBitsAvailable = 2 };
+  enum { NumLowBitsAvailable = NonConst::NumLowBitsAvailable };
 };
 
 // Provide PointerLikeTypeTraits for uintptr_t.