[LLVMdev] Convenience methods in ConstantExpr et al

[Talin]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi Talin,
>
> > I find that I call the static methods in ConstantExpr a *lot* without
> going
> > through IRBuilder - hundreds of times in my frontend. My language
> generates a
> > lot of static data - reflection information, trace tables for the garbage
> > collector, dispatch tables, runtime annotations, static object instances,
> and so
> > on. (In fact there's a special helper class "StructBuilder" that
> automates a lot
> > of the work of building constant structs, such as adding the standard
> object
> > header and so on.)
>
> I think it would be better to create a ConstBuilder class rather than add
> stuff
> to ConstantExpr.
>
> Well, it doesn't seem that there's much interest in a ConstBuilder class,
based on the number of replies to my proposal :) So I'm back to the question
as to whether it would be acceptable to add a few extra helper methods to
ConstantExpr, ConstStruct, and so on.


> Ciao, Duncan.
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