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
