<div dir="ltr">While I personally prefer the rolling caps convention for initialisms, all caps is the more widely used convention across LLVM. In fact, lib/DebugInfo/PDB is right next to it, so I'd go with that.<div><br></div><div>Other than that, yeah, sounds good. :)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Zachary Turner via llvm-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>If you don't care about Debug Info or PDB files you can stop reading now.<br><div><br></div><div>Just wanted to give a heads up that I'm planning to add a new folder under DebugInfo called Msf.</div><div><br></div><div>MSF stands for Multi-Stream File and is the container format used by PDB debug info files. However, MSF by itself is generic enough that it need not contain PDB data, and in fact I can think of at least one other case of MSF files being used to store non-PDB data. </div><div><br></div><div>Currently, we have llvm/DebugInfo/PDB which contains both our knowledge of the PDB format as well as our knowledge of the MSF format. And worse, some of this knowledge of MSF files is in DebugInfo/CodeView. And in some cases we are saying PDB when we really mean MSF, and in some cases we are saying MSF when we really mean PDB.</div></div><div><br></div><div>To make the distinction clearer, and to provide a theoretical means by which someone could use MSF to store non-PDB data, I have a patch to move all our of MSF knowledge into a separate library.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm planning to commit this later today, and mostly just wanted to give a heads up in case people are surprised when they see a new directory pop up under DebugInfo.</div></div>
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