I am building bindings for LLVM in Racket, and was wondering how does memory
management work for the C API. I'm guessing that when a module is disposed
of all of the instructions and functions that were inside it are no longer
valid, similarly with contexts and types. But what about when I delete a
function, are all of the instructions that were inside it invalidated? What if a
builder is still located at a basic block inside the function? What about when a
global variable is removed, what happen to uses of it?
The reason that I want to know this is that the C style of blowing the world up
when something goes wrong doesn't really work in higher level languages, and
I want to catch programmer mistakes before that happens and through an
exception.
Is there any documentation on this (besides the C++ source)?
-Eric
