[LLVMdev] Circular dependencies

[Chris Lattner]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Chris Lattner wrote:
>> 2. Combine the JIT/Interpreter/ExecutionEngine into one .a
>
> I'd much rather change the code so that interpreter depends on EE and JIT 
> depends on EE, but EE depends on neither of them.
>
> This would allow people to link just the JIT or just the interpreter into 
> their apps, instead of always having both or none.

FWIW, this is now in CVS.

>> I don't know enough about the codegen/target/analysis/ipa stuff to be
>> able to make any suggestions. Perhaps Chris can shed some light.
>
>>>    LLVMCodeGen.o LLVMSelectionDAG.o libLLVMAnalysis.a libLLVMTarget.a
>>>    libLLVMTransformUtils.a libLLVMipa.a
>
> LLVMIPA should depend on LLVMAnalysis, but certainly nothing in the list 
> should depend on LLVMIPA.  If you knew what was pulling in IPA that would 
> probably be an easy tie to sever.

To diagnose and fix this, I need to know the specific symbol in libipa 
that is getting referenced.  Reid, since you have the magical ability to 
run the script, can you look into it?

-Chris

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