[llvm-dev] [RFC] Queries for LLVM version

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev]

> On Feb 7, 2017, at 5:44 PM, Timothy Arceri via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 00:12 +0100, Nemanja Ivanovic wrote:
>> I am certainly willing to write up a patch to do this. I was hoping
>> to get a few more responses/buy-in from the community.
>> And honestly, I'd be interested to know if this can be back-ported to
>> at least 4.0 if it gets accepted.
> 
> My *possible* use case is for identifying the version of llvm used to
> compile shaders for AMD gpus. This information would be used with an
> on-disk cache of compiled shaders allowing old cache items to be
> ignored if llvm is upgraded.
> 
> One downside of this is there is no way to know if distros backport
> fixes to llvm. If the version is not bumped then the a buggy cached
> shader would continue to be used even after the distro makes the fix.

This is exactly why we don’t use this kind of versioning: it is fragile/unreliable.

— 
Mehdi


> 
> 
>> 
>> Now that I see that there's more interest in this than just my own,
>> I'll put up a patch on Phabricator.
> 
> Cool, thanks!
> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:04 AM, Timothy Arceri via llvm-dev <llvm-de
>> v at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>> On 01/26/2017 12:45 AM, Nemanja Ivanovic via llvm-dev wrote:
>>>> This has actually come up in the context of a JIT, but I think
>>> that 
>>>> having the functionality in general could be useful.
>>>> 
>>>> Currently, there does not appear to be an API in LLVM to query
>>> for 
>>>> LLVM version information. In the particular context where this
>>> came 
>>>> up, LLVM is used as a shared library and various functionality
>>> (and 
>>>> bug fixes) used by the JIT is available in various LLVM versions.
>>> So 
>>>> it would be quite convenient to be able to dynamically determine
>>> the 
>>>> version that happens to be loaded.
>>>> 
>>>> Honestly, I am not completely clear on what the best place for 
>>>> something like this would be, but it appears that the following
>>> seems 
>>>> like a natural choice:
>>>> 
>>>> llvm::VersionPrinter in lib/Support/CommandLine.cpp already
>>> queries 
>>>> this data so it might make sense for it to expose the following
>>> API's 
>>>> (as part of VersionPrinter, accessed through the instance):
>>>> llvm::cl::getVersionMajor()
>>>> llvm::cl::getVersionMinor()
>>>> llvm::cl::getVersionPatch()
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm also interested in querying this at runtime. Has there been any
>>> patches submitted for this yet?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tim
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