[cfe-dev] Windows Lit problems again. What should we do?

Francois Pichet pichet2000 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 21:13:35 PDT 2010


On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Francois Pichet <pichet2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree in principle, it is nice to have behavior be the same across
> platforms. However, this is also intended to be a user-transparent QOI
> improvement for Clang and it is closely tied to how Unix handles
> files. If the underlying FS in Windows can't support the same QOI
> tweak then it is reasonable to not do it.
>
> Copy + delete seems suboptimal to me. It means Clang will be hitting
> the FS twice as hard as need be.

I committed the change (copy+delete) because Chris Lattner gave me the
ok and also to unblock the buildbot.
You are right this is suboptimal, I'll revisit the problem soon for a
clean solution.



More information about the cfe-dev mailing list