Add a comment about odd "signed char" incompatibility between C++ and C.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@116593 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenTBAA.cpp b/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenTBAA.cpp
index ed2b13f11c..f9082fc917 100644
--- a/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenTBAA.cpp
+++ b/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenTBAA.cpp
@@ -51,7 +51,11 @@ CodeGenTBAA::getTBAAInfo(QualType QTy) {
   // For now, just emit a very minimal tree.
   if (const BuiltinType *BTy = dyn_cast<BuiltinType>(Ty)) {
     switch (BTy->getKind()) {
-    // Charactar types are special and can alias anything.
+    // Character types are special and can alias anything.
+    // In C++, this technically only includes "char" and "unsigned char",
+    // and not "signed char". In C, it includes all three. For now,
+    // the risk of exploting this detail in C++ seems likely to outweigh
+    // the benefit.
     case BuiltinType::Char_U:
     case BuiltinType::Char_S:
     case BuiltinType::UChar: