[LLVMdev] [RFC] Developer Policy for LLVM C API

Rafael EspĂ­ndola rafael.espindola at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 15:25:43 PDT 2015


On 17 July 2015 at 15:04, Hayden Livingston <halivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we also codify when something should be added to the C API? For a
> lot of folks the C API is the only usable interface. I am one of them.
>
> We are not as vocally represented because don't generally give back to
> the community, usually because we are just consumers of this library.
> (Or maybe I'm totally wrong and lots of us give back).
>
> For example, ORC APIs in C the bindings.

If they are not guaranteed to be stable, I don't think we need any
special restrictions on adding new C apis.

Cheers,
Rafael



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