[LLVMdev] s/ComputeMaskedBits/ComputeKnownBits/g ?

Jay Foad jay.foad at gmail.com
Wed May 14 03:03:03 PDT 2014


On 14 May 2014 09:10, Jay Foad <jay.foad at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 May 2014 21:27, Rafael EspĂ­ndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 13 May 2014 14:33, Jay Foad <jay.foad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've always found the name ComputeMaskedBits a bit unintuitive, and
>>> since r154011 it's even worse because there is no masking going on
>>> whatsoever:
>>>
>>> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20120402/140280.html
>>>
>>> Is there any appetite for a global rename to ComputeKnownBits? Or any
>>> other better names?
>>
>> I like computeKnownBits. Sorry for failing to update the name and
>> comments with the original change.
>
> Oh yeah, the comments. I've updated them first in r208757.
>
> I'll prepare a patch to rename ComputeMaskedBits to computeKnownBits.
> Do I have to worry about any projects outside of the "llvm" svn
> module? Or document the name change, in case any out-of-tree code
> needs updating?

N.B. this change affects most targets, since I'll rename their
computeMaskedBitsForTargetNode methods.

Jay.




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