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...tion. What about the original use-abs-operands? Do you think that what more reasonably scope this? And so properly scoping my proposal I see that I don't want IR compatibility as much as I want encoding options. So with that in mind maybe I need to go back to the drawing board and propose a BitcodeEncoder?BitcodeCompressor? > 2. The use case for it is also very narrow (in contrast to having the *reader* handle old files, which many scenarios benefit from). Yep can't argue that. And I really like that reader is backwards compatible. > 3. The open source project as a whole benefits fro...

On Nov 8, 2012, at 7:09 AM, Joe Abbey <jabbey at arxan.com> wrote: >>> The problem we face is that bitcode changes, and when it does… future versions >>> can read it, but past versions are left in the lurch. For instance LLVM 3.2svn >>> can BitcodeReader from LLVM 3.1, but LLVM 3.1 can't BitcodeReader LLVM 3.2 >>> (after r165739.) There was an

On Nov 8, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> wrote: > Hi Joe, > >> We have a tool which reads in bitcode, processes it, and re-emits it. We use >> this tool as a flexible way to integrate our tool into the Xcode, Android NDK, >> Chromium, and Linux build process. >> >> The problem we face is that bitcode changes, and when it does…