[LLVMdev] API CHANGE: Contexts for Passes

[Aaron Gray]

> Hey folks,
>
> As a number of people have observed, the current mechanism for
> providing an LLVMContext to each pass is extremely hackish, and tends
> to break down in lots of interesting ways.  In light of this, I've
> decided to drop the automagical nature of this mechanism.  Because
> types now hold references to contexts, it is now trivial to get a
> context from within a pass, and I am adding a getContext() accessor to
> Value to make it even simpler.
>
> Summary:  The Context member of Pass will be going away.  Please fetch
> a context from a Type or Value instead.

BTW Could someone put a newline on the end of LLVMContext.cpp as Cygwin 
complains about this every time it compiles. I don't have SVN access so 
cannot do this myself.

Thanks,

Aaron