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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Hello everyone,</font></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">I am a newbie to LLVM and I am trying to develop an LLVM pass. I came across this page "Writing an LLVM Pass" which said, "</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">First, configure and build LLVM. This needs to be done directly inside the LLVM source tree rather than in a separate objects directory. "</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">where as LLVM installation page says to have a separate build directory for putting all the binaries. I am trying to understand why this distinction of having to build LLVM inside source when debuggers can still refer to the source files from build directory? </font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Please correct me if I am wrong. </font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Thanks,</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Amruth</font></span></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </div></body>
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