[llvm-dev] Inclusion of the ORC runtime in compiler-rt
Lang Hames via llvm-dev
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Apr 29 17:38:28 PDT 2021
Hi Jon,
Libomptarget has broken free of copy&paste of headers by declaring a build
> time requirement for the llvm source tree, from which it includes otherwise
> standalone headers.
Thanks very much for pointing this out. It seems reasonable to assume the
presence of an LLVM source tree -- several compiler-rt tests rely on LLVM
tools already. I'll double check with the compiler-rt maintainers, but this
sounds like a good solution to me.
-- Lang.
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 2:21 AM Jon Chesterfield via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> 2. Re: Inclusion of the ORC runtime in compiler-rt.
>>
>>
>> > InstrProfData.inc is shared between LLVM and compiler-rt:
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> There's no special mechanism to keep those in sync, we manage them
>> manually.
>>
>>
>> Thanks Petr. That's about the same amount of code that ORC will need to
>> share I think. Glad there's a precedent to follow.
>
>
> Libomptarget has broken free of copy&paste of headers by declaring a build
> time requirement for the llvm source tree, from which it includes otherwise
> standalone headers.
>
> This is much nicer than manually updating, or having tests that do the
> diff, or build scripts that do the copy.
>
> If orc doesn't have a cmake variable from which it can find llvm, it can
> warn about that and decline to build.
>
> This will break people who build orc without llvm available anywhere on
> disk, until they download llvm or build a local skeleton directory
> containing copies of the files. That may be an empty set of people. Noone
> complained for libomptarget.
>
> Please seriously consider this strategy instead of duplicating the files.
>
> Jon
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