[anonymousDan]

Is there any implicit understanding in the community that byte types will inevitably be added to LLVM? I see that there has been a recent GSOC effort (https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2025-08-29-gsoc-byte-type/ ) but it's unclear whether this has resolved most of the issues or is still an open research problem.

[nikic]

> Is there any implicit understanding in the community that byte types will inevitably be added to LLVM?

Among the people who are familiar with such things, yes. An RFC on the topic will be posted in the near future.