[cfe-dev] Attributes on statements and expressions

[Sean Hunt]

On 04/26/2010 03:43 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote:
> Is your proposal available online somewhere?

http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/llvm/t127230760878

> Would the attribute information be encoded as LLVM metadata (MDNode)?
>
> Let me know if there's any way I can help in this effort.
>
> Trevor
>

Encoding it as a metadata node seems like a good idea, but that's 
something I'll probably leave to someone else. I don't know enough about 
LLVM's metadata to know if you'd want to just have an 
[[llvm::metadata(<something>)]] attribute, or individual attributes for 
different kinds of metadata.

Sean