[LLVMdev] Metadata

[David Greene]

On Monday 04 January 2010 19:22, Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:14 PM, David Greene wrote:
> > Is there some documentation about metadata and how to use it
> > somewhere?
> > The doxygen-generated stuff obviously doesn't specify things like how
> > to create custom metadata kinds and all that jazz.
>
> The metadata design and APIs are still evolving.  I wouldn't recommend
> building anything on it just yet, but I'm hoping it will finalize and
> stabilize this month.  The high-level idea and proposal was here:
> http://nondot.org/sabre/LLVMNotes/ExtensibleMetadata.txt

Cool.  Is the goal to have it ready for 2.7?  The nontemporal stuff is
a rather large cause of merge conflicts for us and it would be nice to
get it into the public repository before 2.7 is out.

                            -Dave