[cfe-dev] Is ModuleBuilder useful to anyone?

[Yaron Keren]

True, I checked now and cling uses the ModuleBuilder. It can't switch
to BackendConsumer as it's still using the old JIT.


2014-12-30 10:04 GMT+02:00 Mark Boyall <wolfeinstein at gmail.com>:

> I have a hard dependency on it and have no idea how I could handle losing
> that API
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> Sent: 30/12/2014 07:32
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> Subject: Re: Is ModuleBuilder useful to anyone?
>
> Personally I'm not using it, but I recall that cling might be?
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Yaron Keren <yaron.keren at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Following
>>
>>
>> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-commits/Week-of-Mon-20140825/113355.html
>>
>> In tree,  ModuleBuilder has one user (+test) only, the BackendConsumer.
>> The interaction between the two classes complicates BackendConsumer
>> logic. For instance, both hold the same Module * in two different
>> std::unique_ptr and dance around this problem to avoid releasing it twice
>> or none.
>>
>> Out of tree, is ModuleBuilder limited functionality useful to any project?
>>
>>
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