[LLVMdev] ocaml binding question

[Sarah Thompson]

Gordon Henriksen wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> On 2007-12-10, at 18:28, Jon Harrop wrote:
>
>   
>> On Monday 10 December 2007 23:14, Gordon Henriksen wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On 2007-12-10, at 18:04, Sarah Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> Is it reasonable for me to hack on this, or would you rather do  
>>>>> it yourself? (If the latter, you would be very much in my debt...)
>>>>>           
>>>> Or the other way around, or something. :)
>>>>         
>>> :) I'm adding it now.
>>>       
>> I'd really appreciate JIT support from OCaml while you're there and  
>> if you'd like to send me some money as well that'd be great. ;-)
>>     
>
> :) Well, this commit should be a good template for adding bindings for  
> new libraries.
>
>   
>> Incidentally, should more OCaml stuff beyond the bindings be part of  
>> LLVM or would it be better to fork them into a separate project
>>     
>
> Can you be more specific than "stuff"?
>
>   
>> and alleviate some stress from Chris et al? Might be easier if a  
>> community want to tinker with ideas, e.g. for a higher-level  
>> interface.
>>     
>
>
> Chris doesn't have Ocaml installed, AFAIK, so I don't know how much of  
> a concern that is. ;) I'd probably be the first line of review.
>
>   
I'd be inclined to push for at least the binding staying linked with 
LLVM's releases, at least from a version control point of view, or it 
would get difficult to keep them working together reliably. As for other 
ocaml-based tools, I'm not so concerned, though obviously if they turn 
out to be very useful it might make sense to distribute them with the 
core release.

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