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Hi Owen, What if I want to have global llvm::Type's, that can be used by many LLVMContext's. For example, I'd like to have one LLVMContext per function, and be able to create constants that belong to the context but using a global, shared amongst LLVMContext's, llvm::Type. I know that's not doable right now, but aren't we losing this possibility if we move back to

...ork properly. Trying to get around this is likely to cause screwy results, as things that should compare as equal won't. Hope that helps, --Owen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20090728/55b4d747/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2620 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20090728/55b4d747/attachment.bin>

So, as you all probably noticed, the APIs for creating constants have been moved (or in a specific cases, are about to be moved) from static methods on Constant to instance methods on LLVMContext. However, as was recently pointed out on llvm-commits and on IRC, this is no longer strictly necessary. Because types have contexts, all of the constant subclasses could be friended to