Re: upcoming API changes for LLVM 12

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: upcoming API changes for LLVM 12
Date: 2020-10-16 02:37:43
Message-ID: CA+hUKGJdBfiZXvC_hGSr9vXTSyzrPysWmK7qs7bh8=9yrXV-9w@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 2:12 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> There will be a breaking API change for JIT related API in LLVM
> 12. Mostly about making control over various aspects easier, and then
> building on top of that providing new features (like JIT compiling in
> the background and making it easier to share JIT compiled output between
> processes).
>
> I've worked with Lang Hames to ensure that the new C API has feature
> parity...

Cool!

> I'd be inclined to add support for LLVM 12 to master soon, and then
> backpatch that support around LLVM 12's release.

+1. I guess Fabien's animal "seawasp" will turn red next week.
Apparently it rebuilds bleeding edge LLVM weekly (though strangely
last week it went backwards... huh).

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