The semantics for converting nested pointers between address
spaces are not very well defined. Some conversions which do not
really carry any meaning only produce warnings, and in some cases
warnings hide invalid conversions, such as 'global int*' to
'local float*'!
This patch changes the logic in checkPointerTypesForAssignment
and checkAddressSpaceCast to fail properly on implicit conversions
that should definitely not be permitted. We also dig deeper into the
pointer types and warn on explicit conversions where the address
space in a nested pointer changes, regardless of whether the address
space is compatible with the corresponding pointer nesting level
on the destination type.
I am wondering if we could just unify with the diagnostic above?
We could add another select at the end: