[LLVMdev] MAJOR API CHANGE: Pass initialization without static constructors

[John Criswell]

  On 10/8/10 3:44 PM, Owen Anderson wrote:
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>> Hrm.  I see.
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>> I still don't like the idea of having every statically-linked tool explicitly initializing every library that gets linked in.  Just dumping the library into the Makefile and being done with it was much nicer.
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>> If you can find a reasonable way to support that, it would be nice.  However, if you can't, it's not that big a deal.  As I mentioned before, as long as out-of-tree passes don't have to modify LLVM source files to work properly, I'll live.
> I don't especially like it either, but the abundance of static constructors in LLVM has been a long-standing performance concern.  I wouldn't be going this way if I had a better solution.

Okay.  Thanks, Owen.

-- John T.

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