[cfe-dev] RFC: Supporting private module maps for non-framework headers

Argyrios Kyrtzidis kyrtzidis at apple.com
Tue Nov 11 15:45:32 PST 2014


> On Nov 11, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Argyrios Kyrtzidis <kyrtzidis at apple.com <mailto:kyrtzidis at apple.com>> wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 10, 2014, at 7:48 PM, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk <mailto:richard at metafoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Argyrios Kyrtzidis <kyrtzidis at apple.com <mailto:kyrtzidis at apple.com>> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> For frameworks Clang currently supports adding a separate module map file for the private headers of the framework. It looks specifically for the presence of ‘module.private.modulemap’ inside the .framework and parses both the public and the private module maps when it processes its module. We would like to extend support for private module maps for non-framework headers as well. 
>> 
>> In the Darwin platform, the public SDK headers are located in '/usr/include', while the associated private SDK headers are located in '/usr/local/include’. '/usr/local/include’ comes before '/usr/include’ in the header search paths.
>> 
>> I worry that this will be fragile. If for any reason we look in /usr/include but not in /usr/local/include, we'll not load the private extension map and things will probably go quite badly from that point onwards. If the presence of the /usr/local/include headers is a fundamental part of a /usr/include module, then it seems better to me to specify that within the /usr/include module map.
>> 
>> So here's one possibility: allow 'extern module' declarations to be nested within other modules, then write your /usr/include module map as:
>> 
>> module MyModule {
>>   <...>
>>   extern module SomethingPrivate "/usr/local/include/module.private.map"
>> }
> 
> This has drawbacks:
> 
> - Details of the private SDK, “leak out” to the public one. It should work similar to frameworks, in that the public SDK remains the same irrespective if there is or not a private API, and the private API is a straight addition on top of the public one without needing to modify something in the public SDK.
> - It is a bit weak as guarantee anyway because the public module map must necessarily function even when the extension map is missing, which means pointing at the wrong path or missing the private map when you really need it will not be detected.
> - Flexibility to extend a module from any path may be valuable for testing.
> 
> OK, I'm not sure I understand what problem you're solving. If the /usr/local/include stuff works as a layer on top of /usr/include, why do you need them to be built as part of the same module? (Do your /usr/local/include headers override / #include_next some of the /usr/include headers, perhaps? If so, do you need the #includes in /usr/include to find the /usr/local/include headers rather than the /usr/include headers?)

There are some cases of cycles between public/private headers which would be accommodated by a single module build but the primary motivation is that we would like the module public/private interface to be under the same namespace, so you’d do

	@import Dispatch;
	@import Dispatch.Private;

	@import Darwin.POSIX.Foo.Bar;
	@import Darwin.POSIX.Foo.Bar.Private;

and generally any kind of private extension:

	@import Dispatch.SuperCoolButPrivate;


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