[LLVMdev] new LTO C interface

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Evan Cheng wrote:
>> lto_ interface and it would just work with the linker.  Therefore,
>> although this implementation is llvm specific, the interface is not.
>
> Ok, that makes sense. Ignore my comments about naming convention, etc.
> then. However, does this mean the interface should not be part of llvm
> if it's truly compiler neutral?

The goal is for it to be compiler neutral, but since LLVM is the only 
compiler that supports it, it is mostly a theoretical exercise.  When the 
second compiler comes along that wants to support LTO, we can figure out 
where it should live.  Until then, living in the LLVM repo makes sense to 
me,

-Chris

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