[cfe-dev] LLVM Dev Meeting - Talk Proposal Deadline 9/30

[dawn at burble.org]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:58:31AM -0700, Eric Christopher wrote:
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> On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:53 AM, dawn at burble.org wrote:
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> > Is there sufficient interest out there for BOFs on either:
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> > * unicode/localization, or
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> Probably some here.
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> > * VFS (virtual file system)
> > 
> 
> Could you be more specific here?

The existing buffering requires that code be written out before it
can be passed to clang.  We would like to be able to pass code to clang
directly from a memory mapped file (e.g. from an un-saved editor buffer).

On July 19, 2010, Daniel Dunbar wrote a good description here
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/9653/match=virtual+file+system+daniel+dunbar.

-Dawn