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...e in the generated object file. So, I had to solve the question: how do I smuggle some metadata on the module level, from the frontend to the generated object file (in an hopefully sane and reusable manner). So, the solution I thought about was the following. The gathered information is but into a NamedMetadataStringAttr and attached to the TranslationUnitDecl. This would be, as far as I can see, the first annotation on the TranslationUnit level. Attributes seem to me the best solution at that point, since there is already a good infrastructure in clang. TranslationUnitDecl | NamedMetadataAttr implicit llvm....

...file. So, I had to solve the question: how do I smuggle some > metadata on the module level, from the frontend to the generated object > file (in an hopefully sane and reusable manner). > > So, the solution I thought about was the following. The gathered > information is but into a NamedMetadataStringAttr and attached to the > TranslationUnitDecl. This would be, as far as I can see, the first > annotation on the TranslationUnit level. Attributes seem to me the best > solution at that point, since there is already a good infrastructure in > clang. > > TranslationUnitDecl > |...