[PATCH] D20541: [esan|cfrag] Create the cfrag variable for the runtime

[Mike Aizatsky via llvm-commits]

aizatsky added a comment.

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D20541#438477, @zhaoqin wrote:

> In http://reviews.llvm.org/D20541#438443, @aizatsky wrote:
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> > > Do you want me to have a general GV layout for different Tool?
> >
> >
> > No, I don't think you need a general layout. But you can have a base struct with ToolType at least. This way you'll guarantee that ToolType would always be a first field => no confusion would happened.
>
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> Yes, I agree that would be better.  What I worried is how to implement so.
>  As you can see at line 213, the Struct Type is declared upfront and then we create the new globalvariable with that type and fill in the value at line 220.
>  I can think of two ways to do so:
>
> 1. general layout as I described before
> 2. creating a struct ToolHeader or something to put beginning of each tool specific struct. Then it still rely on each tool putting that header struct at beginning.


Let's see how this will play out. Will push this decision onto the one adding the second struct type :)


http://reviews.llvm.org/D20541