[LLVMdev] Hi, people, I propose to move Debug and Object File related headers out of Support

[罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo)]

LLVM is a modularized software system, so I hope it's was modularized,
And ELF.h is definitely belongs to Object by classification,
The things that confused me is the ELF.h was placed under Support and
don't know why.
Indeed, I checked that those source codes that include ELF.h also
include files under Object folder,
so that's the reason to move ELF.h from Support to Object.

2013/6/29 Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu>:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Going to be interesting layering issues if you do the latter. Then you
>> have CodeGen depending upon DebugInfo instead of just a header in
>> Support.
>
>
> Well, the issue is that LLVM's "libraries" are really not fine grained due
> to our build system/source tree layout, so we end up just glomming together
> large pieces of (sometimes vaguely) related functionality into "libraries",
> which are the units of physical dependency. Realistically, Support/ELF.h is
> a fine piece of independent functionality that should be independently
> reusable, but we don't have effective tools for managing and maintaining
> proper physical dependencies to make that happen.
>
> There are actually a bunch of things in Support that I wish could be
> independently reused. Like if I want to write up a little program, I really
> wish I could do
>
> $ llpm install StringRef ArrayRef raw_ostream MemoryBuffer
>
> and then have it put those relevant modules and their dependencies in a
> local `deps/` (or whatever) directory so that I can then just include them
> in my build.
>
> -- Sean Silva



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