[LLVMdev] Unique shape and types

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Sandro Magi wrote:
>> Actually I am not using llvm-gcc. I'm just targeting a new language and
>> it would have been a lot easier implementing the compiler with LLVM if
>> it had this kind of feature (string <-> type). But if it's not feasible,
>> well I'll just stick with my higher type representation.
>
> Can't this association be established with the new annotation feature?

Yes, it probably could.  THis would require the programmaer manually 
annotating things though.  The recently added annotation capability is 
only to be used to propagate source level annotations, not to capture 
arbitrary information from the front-end.

-Chris

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