Summary: Address spaces are used in several embedded and GPU targets to describe accesses to different types of memory. Currently we use the address space enumerations to control which address spaces are considered supersets of eachother, however this is also a target level property as described by the C standard's passing mentions. This patch allows the address space checks to use the target information to decide if a pointer conversion is legal. For AMDGPU and NVPTX, all supported address spaces can be converted to the default address space. More semantic checks can be added on top of this, for now I'm mainly looking to get more standard semantics working for C/C++. Right now the address space conversions must all be done explicitly in C/C++ unlike the offloading languages which define their own custom address spaces that just map to the same target specific ones anyway. The main question is if this behavior is a function of the target or the language.
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