[llvm-dev] [RFC] Intrinsic naming convention (words with dots)

Eric Christopher via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Dec 2 15:52:15 PST 2015


Yep :)

And if it autoupgrades then it's fairly easy to change anyhow.

-eric

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:45 PM Philip Reames via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> This proposal - dots as namespaces, underscore for words - would be my
> preferred scheme, but I really don't have much of a strong preference.
> Any reasonable scheme which is documented and consistent works for me.
>
> Philip
>
> On 12/01/2015 09:15 AM, Krzysztof Parzyszek via llvm-dev wrote:
> > On 12/1/2015 4:26 AM, Hal Finkel via llvm-dev wrote:
> >> I propose that we standardize on (2) -- words with dots -- as it
> >> seems to have a plurality of more-recent intrinsics (and I think it
> >> is easy to read, as is (3)). Thoughts?
> >
> > How about using dots to separate "contexts" and underscores to
> > separate words, e.g.
> >
> > llvm.gc.*    --stuff related to GC
> > llvm.gc.read
> > llvm.gc.do_something_else
> >
> > -Krzysztof
> >
>
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