[llvm-dev] libLTO C API stability policy

[Tobias Edler von Koch via llvm-dev]

Hi Mehdi,

Just saw the recent replies to this old thread, so just as an FYI... We 
(QuIC Hexagon and ARM) are moving away from libLTO and are anticipating 
to complete the move to the C++ API imminently, so I don't have any 
particular concerns about backward compatibility of the C API on our side.

Thanks,
Tobias

On 09/30/2016 03:18 PM, Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev wrote:
> 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
>
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