[LLVMdev] Quick Question...

[Jon McLachlan]

Hey Everyone,

   I know that LLVM subscribes to the notion of "progress over  
backwards compatibility."  And in that spirit, maybe someone could  
help me better understand the motivation behind removing the  
MallocInst?  Is there a design doc anywhere?

   From a pragmatic sense, the IRBuilder's createMalloc, which was  
returning a MallocInst, was doing a lot of messy work for us users: http://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/Instructions_8cpp-source.html#l00463 
.

   With MallocInst disappearing, is IRBuilder::createMalloc  
disappearing too?

Thanks,
~Jon