[haskell-llvm] llvm-general FFI dependencies

[Carter Schonwald]

whats the motivation for either choice over the current approach?


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Dr. Benjamin S. Scarlet <
roll10 at greynode.net> wrote:

> Scott,
>
> You asked on IRC about putting the Transforms into the -ffi package. I
> replied that yes, that option would be weird.
>
> This option of putting them into the -pure package is also weird.
>
> I'm torn between the two. Neither one is unacceptable; neither is
> particularly nice.
>
> I'm pondering the two, and would welcome arguments in either direction.
>
> -Ben Scarlet
>
> On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 09:33 +0200, Scott West wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've been looking a bit in the past week at the llvm-general bindings
> > trying to figure out how to tweeze the FFI part away from the rest.
> >
> > As Ben Scarlet indicated, the dependency of the FFI part is largely on
> > llvm-general-pure. However, there are two other small dependencies on
> > the llvm-general:
> >
> > - LLVM.General.Internal.InstructionDefs and
> > - LLVM.General.Transforms
> >
> > It seems that the dependency on Internal.InstructionDefs is mostly just
> > code-sharing, and there is probably a not too difficult solution there.
> >
> > For Transforms however, I'm less sure what to do.
> >
> > I think a better option is to move it into llvm-general-pure, as it
> > certainly pure, although it's not really part of the AST (which
> > llvm-general-pure mostly contains). This would make it that
> > llvm-general-pure is a dependency for all llvm packages in the future,
> > allowing us to share a single FFI implementation (the currently hidden
> > llvm-general one).
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Scott
> >
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