[LLVMdev] ObjectFiles.html

[Reid Spencer]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 07:20, Chris Lattner wrote:
> > As you mentioned in the case of x86 backend, this may make a lot of
> > sense. On the other hand, it presumes the developers of LLVM know how
> > the users want to use LLVM!  Say there's a little utility function in
> > the x86 backend that I want to use but I'm not generating any x86 code?
> 
> If you're not generating X86 code, don't use the X86 library.  :)  The
> idea is that LLVM is broken up into libraries that are already probably
> already too fine-grained.  If you don't need something, just don't link to
> it...

This works as long as the libraries are fine-grained _enough_. They
probably are so I'm not going to make an issue out of this because there
are bigger fish to fry.

> Well, in the long term we want to switch everything over to docbook, at
> which point it should just be a matter of doing the equiv of "#include
> ObjectFiles.html", and we suddenly have a new section in the book...

DocBook is good. I'd rather use that than HTML. There's got to be an
HTML to DocBook translator around *somewhere*. Is there a Bugzilla for
this work? Need me to work on this or has it already started?

Reid.
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