[LLVMdev] stability of llvm ir across releases

[Hayden Livingston]

Are you saying the textual form of IR can change, but bitcode doesn't? I
don't know what you mean by assembly syntax.

Is there a changlog entry when the textual IR changes?

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Jeremy Lakeman <Jeremy.Lakeman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Assembly syntax can and will break between versions. But bitcode should
> generally be upgradeable, or a bug should be filed.
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Hayden Livingston <halivingston at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Is it safe to assume that LLVM IR will live more-or-less the same for
>> most releases, and that significant changes will be communicated?
>>
>> Or is it something that can change at any time and you must not rely on
>> it ever being same.
>>
>> To me, it seems like the IR has evolved slowly but no spectacularly large
>> changes were made in the 1-1.5 years I've been watching it, -- sure some
>> experimental patch point, gc stuff, but not your day-to-day types etc
>>
>> I'm asking because I'm going to take somewhat major dependencies in my
>> upcoming system on the IR, and being able to store it across multiple
>> releases of my system.
>>
>> I don't anticipate moving to newer versions of LLVM every time I release,
>> but I do imagine wanting to upgrade to let's say LLVM 3.7 or whatever
>> releases come by.
>>
>> Hayden
>>
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