[LLVMdev] LLVM as a shared library

[David Chisnall]

On 6 Aug 2014, at 16:04, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Currently, we conflate 'C' and 'stable'.  In many cases, I'd prefer a C++ API to a C one, or would be happy to write (or even use automatically generated) thin C wrappers around C++.  The requirement is not the language, it's the stability.  I presume this also applies to WebKit: there's no reason why a C++ library should prefer a C API for talking to a C++ library.  Stability isn't just a binary thing.  We care about several different definitions:
> 
> The additional effort of providing a stable C++ interface is not one I
> would like to undertake. Are you offering to write such an interface
> and keep it up to date with the underlying LLVM (which is sure to keep
> changing at a fast pace)?

Why do you assume that providing a stable C++ interface to a C++ codebase is more effort than providing a stable C interface to a C++ codebase?

David