[llvm] r215224 - Delete dead code. NFC.

Rafael Espíndola rafael.espindola at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 07:20:02 PDT 2014


On 11 August 2014 09:54, João Matos <ripzonetriton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> We were relying on this to figure out the dependencies of an ELF library.
> From what I was told, this code is actually somewhat buggy but my co-worker
> was preparing to send a patch to the list when he noticed it was just
> deleted.
>
> Can this be reverted?

What was it been used for?

I am of the opinion that LLVM vends a general compiler framework, but
not a general file or object library for example. Those exist for
LLVM's own use.

Now, this code was ELF only, and so just a wrapper over ELFFile. Why
not just use ELFFile directly?

Cheers,
Rafael




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