[llvm-dev] libLTO C API stability policy

[Romanova, Katya via llvm-dev]

Hi Mehdi,
Sony is using C API.
Please keep us in the loop!
Katya.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mehdi.amini at apple.com [mailto:mehdi.amini at apple.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 1:19 PM
> To: llvm-dev
> Cc: Romanova, Katya; Sergei Larin
> Subject: libLTO C API stability policy
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> libLTO is exposing a very “stable” (in the sense of immutable) C API to be
> used by linkers (and binutils tools) that manipulate bitcode (like when
> performing LTO).
> 
> I’m looking into relaxing the stability concern and design a policy for this API
> that would allow to deprecate and remove some the APIs exposed here.
> The MacOS linker (ld64) is one the users of libLTO, but there are others
> (Sony? Qualcomm? Anyone else?) that I think are also targeting this API.
> 
> I’d like to identify stakeholders so that we can establish a new policy that
> would accomodate everyone as much as possible. So if you care about the
> libLTO C API, please speak-up!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> —
> Mehdi
>