Re: CVS commit: src

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 10:30:38PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> Joerg seems to just want to play with Clang out of the LLVM projects,
> deteriorating experience with the rest blocking this patch. Other people
> need more than that.

Can we please keep down on the ad hominem, thanks?

> > We provide abi compatibility, so does this mean we just need to bounce
> > the llvm libs major version on every import or is it worse?
> > 
> 
> We will need to bump major version with each LLVM upgrade.
> 
> We need to keep building a selection of LLVM tools to generate or enable
> building neded LLVM files.
> 
> One thing that might tricky and considered as worse.. LLVM profile
> (--coverage option) for some reason has been pushed into NetBSD libc
> (it's part of compiler-rt) in a legacy version ABI v2. Today LLVM uses
> ABI v4 and not sure if we can do anything with it without formal libc
> major bump.

It's the v2 ABI because that's what compiler-rt provided at the time. As
long as the interface of v4 is a superset of v2, that's perfectly fine.
If it is, please apply the complains to the origin of the problem...

Joerg