> On Dec 15, 2016, at 3:46 PM, Alexis via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: > > Triaging old radars, I came across rdar://27268632 from Dmitri. The gist of > it is that he was proposing grouping up all the random global functions that > are implicitly called by the compiler under a “namespace” by making them > static methods of an enum called _Intrinsic. (This name is kind’ve confusing, > because it seems to be the opposite of the traditional notion of an > intrinsic. _RuntimeHook?) > > Since this affects how the compiler interfaces with the standard library, I > figured I should check with everyone what they think about doing this. This > is an ABI stability issue, because future compilers will emit these symbols. > > I don’t really have a strong opinion on the matter. Avoiding global pollution > and clarifying interfaces seems nice?
I agree. It'd be general goodness to enumerate the set of things the compiler expects the standard library to provide, and to see if there's any cleaning up or simplification of these interfaces we can do before ABI lockdown. -Joe _______________________________________________ swift-dev mailing list swift-dev@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
