[LLVMdev] lib/System Unleashed - Need Your Help!

Vladimir Prus ghost at cs.msu.su
Sun Aug 29 23:08:52 PDT 2004


Hi Reid,

> With some MacOS help from Nate, I've begun the conversion of LLVM to use
> lib/System, the operating system independence layer. Currently, the
> library has implementations for three abstractions: Path, Program, and
> Signals. 

Did you consider using boost::filesystem for Path abstraction? See the 
documentation on:

   http://boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm

I'm not saying you should use it, but it's definitely worth looking at. After 
all, why design something which already exists?

- Volodya




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