<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Apr 14, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Argyrios Kyrtzidis <<a href="mailto:kyrtzidis@apple.com">kyrtzidis@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">On Apr 14, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Ben Langmuir <</span><a href="mailto:blangmuir@apple.com" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">blangmuir@apple.com</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">> wrote:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br>On Apr 11, 2014, at 5:45 PM, Argyrios Kyrtzidis <<a href="mailto:kyrtzidis@apple.com">kyrtzidis@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">IntrusiveRefCntPtr<LangOptions> LangOpts;<br>IntrusiveRefCntPtr<DiagnosticsEngine> Diagnostics;<br>+ IntrusiveRefCntPtr<vfs::FileSystem> VFS;<br>IntrusiveRefCntPtr<FileManager> FileMgr;<br>IntrusiveRefCntPtr<SourceManager> SourceMgr;<br><br><…><br><br> DiagnosticsEngine &Diag, LangOptions &LangOpts,<br> SourceManager &SourceMgr, FileManager &FileMgr,<br>+ vfs::FileSystem &VFS,<br><br>Why do we need to keep the VFS separately, isn’t it owned by the FileManager ?<br><br></blockquote><br>No, it is conceptually owned by the CompilerInstance. The FileManager is a user (albeit the only user right now). I say conceptually owned, because it is a ref-counted object that doesn’t really have a single owner.<br></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">So taking into account that it is a ref-counted object with no single owner, and FileManager already has reference to it (I think considering the FileManager as one of its owners makes sense IMO), why do we need it as a field in ASTUnit class and passing around as parameter when a FileManager parameter is already there ?</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"></blockquote><div><br></div>Sure, I can drop the field. I will change ASTUnit, but keep CompilerInstance the way it is for now, since you can reuse a VFS without reusing the FileManager, so it makes sense to have a separate field in that case. Updated patch attached.</div><div><br></div><div></div></body></html>