On Aug 30, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Ted Kremenek <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 30, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Chandler Carruth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Yea, the only problem is that the SA/Frontend library depends heavily on the 
>> Frontend library. We build all of the SA into a single library, but we 
>> probably shouldn't. Because we do that, when we check the library-level 
>> include layering, we find a cycle.
> 
> I'm not certain why the SA/Frontend library was created in the first place.  
> Originally the Frontend library depended on the StaticAnalyzer, and there was 
> no cycle.  Conceptually SA/Frontend is more part of the Frontend then the 
> static analyzer, and that's how it was actually implemented at one point.  At 
> some point it seemed reasonable to move the static analyzer specific parts of 
> the Frontend into SA/Frontend out of the core Frontend library.  This 
> over-refactoring is what has led to this confusion.
> 
>> 
>> Here is one question perhaps, which of the 3 SA sub-libraries should this 
>> header belong to?
>> 
> 
> Probably StaticAnalyzerCore.
> 

My unproductive vitriol aside, would it help for me to create a 4th (leafy) 
library to include this leaf header?  It's not completely silly, and would 
hopefully resolve this structuring issue.

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