[LLVMdev] [RFC] Developer Policy for LLVM C API

Antoine Pitrou antoine at python.org
Mon Jul 27 03:27:04 PDT 2015


Hal Finkel <hfinkel <at> anl.gov> writes:
> 
> Do you require long-term cross-release ABI and/or API stability
> from the C API that you're using? Do these
> other projects?

For the record, in llvmlite and Numba we don't require C API stability
for two reasons:

1) the C API is not enough for us and we rely on bits of the C++ API
2) we also rely on other details such as textual IR format, which change
   from release to release anyway.

Regards

Antoine.





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