[cfe-commits] [llvm-commits] [Patch] Move TargetData from Target to Support/VMCore

[Kim Gräsman]

HI Micah,

On Thursday, October 4, 2012, Villmow, Micah wrote:

> Chris, the problem with steps #2/#3 is that plenty of clients have forward
> declarations of TargetData and the typedef won't work in this case, so I
> need to update the clients anyways.
>

One trick I've used as an alternative to typedefs is to just derive from
the old class, e.g.

  class NewName : public TargetData {};

This is forward-declarable just as well as TargetData itself.

FWIW,
- Kim
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