[llvm-dev] Extending the SouceMgr

[lxsameer via llvm-dev]

Hey folks,
Hope you're doing well. 


It seems to me that it is not possible to extend the current behavior  of `llvm::SourceMgr` (at least I couldn't think of any solution) and it is quite C/C++ish ( for lack of a better word).

For my use case, I need to tweak it a little bit and since there is now way to do that, I have to write my own which means I'm going to lose the ability to use any llvm api that expect a source manager and that's a big price to pay.

It seems that the source manger will benefits from a trait like design. This way, any front end that need a customized source manager can easily do that and the current source manager would be an implementation of that trait. 


What do you think?

Cheers
Sameer
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