[LLVMdev] RFC: [Proposal] Module-Level Attributes

[Bill Wendling]

On Oct 30, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Dan Gohman wrote:

> Hi Bill,
> 
> This is a broad solution to what sounds like a specific problem. Are there any
> other uses for module-level attributes anticipated?
> 
I asked this same question to Chris and the answer is "yes." Objective-C is the obvious benefactor of this proposal, because it relies so heavily on metadata. But there's no reason that it should be restricted to just ObjC.

> Do you anticipate defining what ImageInfo, CorrectedSynthesize, GCOnly, etc.
> mean in LangRef.html, or are they just going to be left as "The is for ObjC." ?
> 
They and all other attributes will be explicitly defined in LangRef.html.

-bw