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

[Chandler Carruth]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Villmow, Micah <Micah.Villmow at amd.com>wrote:

>  I'm curious how this could work.****
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> I have two classes.****
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> TargetData and DataLayout.****
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> I want to point all uses of TargetData at DataLayout.****
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> typedef won't work not just because of forward declarations, but also
> because of static functions.****
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> So, I could define DataLayout as a subclass of TargetData, but once I want
> to move to DataLayout, how do I define TargetData in a way that won't
> require changes to many many locations.
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I think you need to reverse the suggestion and instead use:

class TargetData {
  // existing code
};

class DataLayout : public TargetData {
  // some forwarding boilerplate
}

Then you can change everyone to refer to DataLayout, and then lift the
implementation of TargetData up into DataLayout.

You'll have to change folks to refer to DataLayout in o "top-down" way --
producers first.

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> Micah****
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> *From:* Kim Gräsman [mailto:kim.grasman at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 04, 2012 1:33 PM
> *To:* Villmow, Micah
> *Cc:* Chris Lattner; Evan Cheng; llvm-commits at cs.uiuc.edu LLVM;
> cfe-commits at cs.uiuc.edu cfe; Nadav Rotem
>
> *Subject:* Re: [cfe-commits] [llvm-commits] [Patch] Move TargetData from
> Target to Support/VMCore****
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> HI Micah,
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> On Thursday, October 4, 2012, Villmow, Micah wrote:****
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> 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.****
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>  ****
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> One trick I've used as an alternative to typedefs is to just derive from
> the old class, e.g.****
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>   class NewName : public TargetData {};****
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> This is forward-declarable just as well as TargetData itself.****
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> FWIW,****
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> - Kim****
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