[LLVMdev] The poor organization of TargetLowering (and related subclasses) is out of hand

[Eric Christopher]

+1 Have at IMO :)

-eric

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com> wrote:
> (Sorry for CC'ing piles of people, but didn't want folks to miss this in the
> mailing list churn.)
>
> See the subject. The problem is in the target-independent code generator and
> especially in the x86 backend.
>
> I would like to fix it. This will be a mechanical change just organizing
> code in a way that makes it easy and fast to find methods and related static
> helpers. It will not change any actual functionality. But it will pretty
> much completely break the utility of looking at only a single layer of
> blame. Fortunately we have nice tools like 'git blame' that can step
> incrementally back through time.
>
> If anyone is radically opposed to me cleaning up TargetLowering.h,
> TargetLoweringBase.cpp, and X86ISelLowering.{h,cpp}, shout. Otherwise, I
> will clean this up with a vengence. I've CC'ed piles of folks who are
> actively contributing and might be seriously impacted to make sure I don't
> really make life horrible for folks.
>
> -Chandler
>
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