[PATCH] Some infrastructure work for virtual file system

Argyrios Kyrtzidis kyrtzidis at apple.com
Tue Feb 11 09:43:28 PST 2014


On Feb 11, 2014, at 9:40 AM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Ben Langmuir <blangmuir at apple.com> wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2014, at 2:16 AM, Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> wrote:
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>> Very cool. A few high level questions:
>> - shouldn't the virtual file system go into llvm, not clang?
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> I’m fine with putting this in llvm/Support instead of clang/Basic, but we’ll need to check with llvm-dev and the libsupport code owner.  If you feel strongly about this I’ll send something to Chandler and llvm-dev.
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> So, one point: code owners don't have a "yes" or "no" to say to something. We just are responsible for finding a code reviewer if one doesn't show up to review a patch.
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> That said, my suggestion is actually to get a good abstraction that you think *could* move productively to the LLVM support library but is easier to iterate on in clang/Basic. When you think it's looking good, maybe send it then?
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> I just don't want to slow down the reviews with questions like -- how would LLD use this? How would it interact with X, Y, and Z use case that you don't (currently) have?

+1, let’s iterate more and have it “battle tested” on clang before we hoist it on llvm.
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