<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Matt Arsenault <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arsenm2@gmail.com" target="_blank">arsenm2@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""><div>On Jun 22, 2015, at 9:31 AM, Rafael Espíndola <<a href="mailto:rafael.espindola@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafael.espindola@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></span><span class=""><div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">This part is scary.</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Having a third party library dependency is very undesirable from a testing perspective.<span> </span></p><div><br></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>I agree, but it’s what we are stuck with for now. It’s an optional dependency now, so most people building LLVM won’t need to worry about it <span class=""><br><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br>One of the important property of MC is avoiding the need for two code paths in the code generator.<span> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">If MC cannot support the format you need, we should work on fixing that in a way that maintains the property that most code is shared when writing objects or assembly. This is a need that is shared by Webassembly I think.<span> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">My suggestion would be to start with just the assembly printing path and work to figure out what needs to happen in MC.<span> </span></p><div><br></div></blockquote><br></span></div><div>It will take a long time to come up with a replacement for emitting BRIG in MC. How blocking of an issue is this to getting this committed? If really necessary, I can strip out the BRIG stuff, but would need to constantly maintain a patch re-adding it on top of trunk which would be a huge hassle so I would rather not.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Could you maybe explain a bit more about BRIG and the barriers to using MC for it?</div><div><br></div><div>-- Sean Silva</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Matt</div></font></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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