[LLVMdev] RFP: Metadata is being used poorly to paper over missing IR constructs

[Pete Cooper]

> On Jan 8, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Pete Cooper <peter_cooper at apple.com <mailto:peter_cooper at apple.com>> wrote:
> > #2
> > We need to make module flags a first class entity of the module, just like data layout:
> For #2, I agree we need module flags.  Run an objective C program and you’ll see stuff like this at the bottom which should not be metadata:
> 
> !{i32 4, !"Objective-C Garbage Collection", i32 0}
> 
> Personally i would put an AttributeSet on the Module.
> 
> Sure, I have no specific thoughts on implementation of this. It just shouldn't be metadata.
Agreed.

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