[LLVMdev] More Encoding Ideas

[Robert Mykland]

At 06:14 PM 8/20/2004, Reid Spencer wrote:
> > > > I think the original plan was to have multiple modules in them but 
> this
> > > seems
> > > > to have gone by the wayside. The result of linking two (or more)
> > > modules is a
> > > > single module so except in some really bizare corner cases the need for
> > > > multiple modules would go away. I suppose we could get rid of the 
> block id
> > > > field for the file. I'll give this some thought and see if Chris 
> has any
> > > > objections.
> > >
> > >I don't have any problem with removing it.
> >
> > Cool. Before you chop remember debug libraries.
>
>Sorry, I'm missing the context here. Why would this affect debug
>libraries?

In the case of debug libraries, they would have symbol tables.  It might be 
a lot of work to merge the symbol tables because they would probably 
collide name spaces.  Seperate modules would make it simple.  But as I said 
before, you could still dump the 0x01 and have multiple modules per file so 
that each module in a debug library could have its own name space.

-- Robert.


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