[LLVMdev] Annotate attribute

Tanya M. Lattner tonic at nondot.org
Tue Jun 19 09:03:09 PDT 2007


> In the long term, how are different uses of this string going to be
> kept from conflicting? Is this going to introduce another mini-syntax
> into LLVM, to allow different passes to recognize which pass the string
> is intended for, or to allow passes to pull out selected substrings and
> ignore the rest?

I should have clarified: This is not something that would be used in 
mainline llvm. This is mainly for people doing something research 
orientated and need the annotate attribute. If they need to prevent 
strings from conflicting, they would do so.

-Tanya



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