A patch to move codegen includes into public include

Sean Silva chisophugis at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 17:18:50 PDT 2014


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 4:24 PM, DeadMG <wolfeinstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It'd be one thing to not expose the implementation details if there was a
>> public API ready to go that offered the needed functionality; but there
>> isn't. Exposing your implementation for re-use with well-known consequences
>> is better than other people not being able to re-use it at all.
>
>
> I don't think this line of logic holds.
>
>
> I'm really not sure why the first step isn't to *design* a reasonable
> public API. Throwing header files at the wall and seeing what sticks will
> not result in an API we can maintain and support going forward.
>

Does any part of LLVM actually *design* a public API (besides the C stuff),
rather than having the public API be just the one used by clients within
LLVM? Actually, I feel like there would be pushback for trying to do that.


-- Sean Silva


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