[Vm-dev] building plugins outside the tree

[Ben Coman]

On 20 March 2018 at 01:33, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
> I'd even argue that we would be better off *not* having copies of the
> generated code publicly available and looking like you can edit them.
> Generating the files from Slang is not really all that time consuming (even
> on a Pi) and you don't have to do all of it every time, and we could
> probably improve detection of when you do.
>

IIUC, the requirement for versioning generated sources is that some places
in the code generation rely on Sets, and so is not completely deterministic.
i.e. the same Slang code is not *guaranteed* to produce the same C code.
So the C code used to build the VM needs to be versioned to ensure
you can work backwards while debugging.

cheers -ben
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