[LLVMdev] [RFC] CGContext skeleton implementation

[Philip Reames]

On 12/5/13 4:47 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote:
>
> There are still very viable uses of LLVM which have *no* concept of a 
> target outside of the LLVM IR itself. I think we should preserve this 
> abstraction boundary. I think that means there needs to be an 
> *abstract* interface between the IR layer and the target/codegen layer 
> with a dynamic call across that boundary.
I just want to second this.  There are a number of folks out there 
interested in target or sub-target independent optimization uses for at 
least part of their compilation pipeline.  I'm one of them.  :)

p.s. Sorry for chiming in so late.

Philip