[LLVMdev] Renaming lib/AsmParser?

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Wed Jan 16 11:18:41 PST 2013


On Jan 16, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com> wrote:
> The recent renamings moved some IR-related files and directories to
> more logical places. Is there a plan to rename lib/AsmParser as well?
> This directory name is somewhat misleading, because the code in it
> parses IR. In fact, nothing mentions AsmParser in the code inside that
> dir, except the build files. The name creates a confusion with other
> AsmParser citizens of LLVM like lib/MC/MCParser/AsmParser.cpp (which
> is an actual assembly parser, class AsmParser).

Renaming it to lib/IRParser would make sense to me (along with corresponding things in test/ etc).

-Chris



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