[llvm-commits] [Review] Attributes Documentation

[Meador Inge]

On Dec 5, 2012, at 2:56 AM, James Molloy wrote:

> A couple of comments:
> 
> ====
> 
> It seems strange to me that attribute groups cannot be named, and *must*
> be referred to by number. It is at odds with how registers, globals and
> named metadata work. Is there any reason why they can't be named
> entities?
> 
> ====

I raised this in the original proposal on llvm-dev.  As of yesterday [1]
Bill is open to switching to names instead of numbers.

[1] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2012-December/056764.html

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