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...sense to me to have the C API be less than a full wrapping of the IR building functions. Having less than that, you almost might as well not have it at all. (Which would be sad.) I'd like suggest that the most important thing for the C API is NOT a 100% promise of eternal compatibility, but to _strive_ for compatibility, as much as is realistically possible. If it's not possible, oh well. We're not talking about libc here, so the costs of changing it incompatibly -- with careful deliberation -- are not impossibly huge. I mean, even libstdc++ changes its ABI occassionally! LLVM's C API...

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:34 PM, deadal nix via llvm-dev < llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > 2015-08-16 21:51 GMT-07:00 Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com>: >> >> The promise of stability. We don't promise that the C++ API will stay >> stable. >> > > > Why was that promise be made in the first place ? Has it been made in the >