[LLVMdev] RFC: Separate machine IR from lib/CodeGen into lib/MIR

[Chris Lattner]

On May 26, 2015, at 1:46 PM, Owen Anderson <resistor at mac.com> wrote:
>>> The MIR serialization code will go under the new MIR library and not under
>>> CodeGen which will break the dependency. The CodeGen library will link MIR
>>> automatically so the build files for tools that link with CodeGen won't have to
>>> be changed.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for reading,
>>> Alex
>>> 
>> 
>> FWIW, I'm in favour of this.  I'd be interested to hear if there's
>> a reason *not* to do this.
>> 
>> Here's some more context:
>> 
>>  http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20150518/278031.html <http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20150518/278031.html>
> I have no objections, though I think lib/MachineIR would make a prettier bikeshed ;-)

+1.  Codegen should also be renamed to something else that starts with “Machine” as well.

-Chris

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