[LLVMdev] RFC: Are we ready to completely move away from the optionality of a DataLayout?

[JF Bastien]

>
> > I'm biased towards making DataLayout mandatory but it does break
> legitimate use cases. Target-independent bitcode is not in the best shape
> but this change would kill it off entirely, so we better make sure the
> maintenance is causing enough pain to rectify the change.
>
> Target-independent bitcode exists in the form of things like SPIR and
> PNaCl.  These all have a DataLayout.  The IR already implicitly depends on
> some of these things (e.g. pointer size), making it explicit doesn't break
> things.
>

Correct.

+1 on Chandler's proposal from PNaCl's perspective.
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