[cfe-dev] Is ModuleBuilder useful to anyone?

[Vassil Vassilev]

On 30/12/14 13:34, Yaron Keren wrote:
> True, I checked now and cling uses the ModuleBuilder. It can't switch 
> to BackendConsumer as it's still using the old JIT.
Technically the old JIT is gone and if we update to newer llvm (which is 
the plan) we will have to migrate to MCJIT. Given that, would it be 
easier to avoid using ModuleBuilder?
Vassil
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>
> 2014-12-30 10:04 GMT+02:00 Mark Boyall <wolfeinstein at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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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>     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 <mailto: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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