[llvm-dev] Creating llvm/DebugInfo/Msf folder

[Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev]

While I personally prefer the rolling caps convention for initialisms, all
caps is the more widely used convention across LLVM. In fact,
lib/DebugInfo/PDB is right next to it, so I'd go with that.

Other than that, yeah, sounds good. :)

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Zachary Turner via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> If you don't care about Debug Info or PDB files you can stop reading now.
>
> Just wanted to give a heads up that I'm planning to add a new folder under
> DebugInfo called Msf.
>
> MSF stands for Multi-Stream File and is the container format used by PDB
> debug info files.  However, MSF by itself is generic enough that it need
> not contain PDB data, and in fact I can think of at least one other case of
> MSF files being used to store non-PDB data.
>
> Currently, we have llvm/DebugInfo/PDB which contains both our knowledge of
> the PDB format as well as our knowledge of the MSF format.  And worse, some
> of this knowledge of MSF files is in DebugInfo/CodeView.  And in some cases
> we are saying PDB when we really mean MSF, and in some cases we are saying
> MSF when we really mean PDB.
>
> To make the distinction clearer, and to provide a theoretical means by
> which someone could use MSF to store non-PDB data, I have a patch to move
> all our of MSF knowledge into a separate library.
>
> I'm planning to commit this later today, and mostly just wanted to give a
> heads up in case people are surprised when they see a new directory pop up
> under DebugInfo.
>
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