plotfi added a comment. In D60974#1485417 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D60974#1485417>, @jakehehrlich wrote:
> Background: > There are two parts to this. TextAPI is a public interface of textual > representations for these sorts of files that already exists in llvm. There > exist ELF and MachO textual representations currently. llvm-elfabi is a tool > for 1) Creating Stubs 2) Creating .tbe (the TextAPI fully linked ELF format) > files 3) Converting between them and 4) Analyzing the details of the formats. > > You asked about the format I proposed here, not the already accepted .tbe > format. The format proposed here could be added to TextAPI where it could > subsequently be used in both Clang and a tool that would use the llvm-elfabi > code to create stubs. I imagine the flags needed for this new tool would be > very differnet from what llvm-elfabi uses or would use in the future so we'd > probably want a second symlink the behaved very differently. > > It can currently read ELF and .tbe files and can currently write .tbe files. > I'll have the basics of ELF writing up for review by the end of the day and > that will, for the next month or two be my primary work which should likely > see it close to stabilized. I'd expect landing the basics of ELF writing to > take another week or two since its somewhat involved and I'll likely need to > split the patches up from what I have. Given that no such writer currently > exists this should put a version of your tool well ahead of schedule. Such > are the wonderful benefits of open source. Good, thanks for confirming this. For the format you proposed here, do you think that should be consumed by llvm-elfabi or by a secondary tool that generates a final merged tbe to be consumed by llvm-elfabi? Repository: rG LLVM Github Monorepo CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION https://reviews.llvm.org/D60974/new/ https://reviews.llvm.org/D60974 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
