[cfe-dev] CodeGen and cleaning up initializers

[Douglas Gregor]

On May 3, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Axel Naumann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> For our interpreter cling we do "incremental codegen": as C++ code lines
> (aka top level decls) come by we CodeGen them. But of course we cannot
> re-run initializers.
> 
> Attached patch would allow us to simply remove the initializer function
> from the module and have it (and all C++ initializers) rebuilt
> incrementally. I would expect the cost for regular use cases to be close
> to zero.
> 
> If you can come up with a better (faster / less intrusive) way of doing
> things please let me know! Otherwise I'd like to commit it.

This looks fine to me. Patches should typically go to cfe-commits, though.

	- Doug