[llvm-commits] [llvm] r164813 - /llvm/trunk/include/llvm/Operator.h

[Eli Friedman]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:22 AM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, I see, this is an intermediate abstract class? I didn't test that
> case, I was just directly instantiating the class I was testing.
>
> OK, now I'm confused by this Operator type. How is it useful? If the
> ctor is deleted then no derived type could ever be instantiated, could
> it? So why would these be types at all instead of collections of
> static utility functions?

There isn't any good reason other than historical precedent; this code
has been around for a very long time.

-Eli