On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 07:11:10PM -0700, bobbyhol...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 4:41:30 PM UTC-7, Nathan Froyd wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Chris Peterson > > <cpeter...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > The Stylo team would like to make libclang a build-time dependency > > > so we can generate C++/Rust bindings as part of the local build. > > > > What is the benefit of doing this, especially for people not working > > on Stylo? > > For stylo, we generate Rust representations for all sorts of C++ data > structures. If those memory layouts are wrong, it's a memory hazard. > > If we don't generate the bindings at build time, we would need to > check them into the tree, which means that developers would need to > manually run the binding generator any time they changed a bound data > structure (including all sorts of stuff in xpcom, MFBT, dom, and > layout). Forgetting to do this would be sec-critical, and people will > most certainly forget. And even if they didn't, it would be a huge > PITA.
Why are we considering a dependency on libclang instead of one on rust-bindgen? Mike _______________________________________________ dev-builds mailing list dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds
