rust and llvm (Re: Firefox and llvm)

[Mikhail T.]

On 17.06.19 00:10, Charlie Li wrote:
> Rust will not revert back to providing an option to use an external 
> LLVM. Rust needs to use its own LLVM, which not only tracks upstream 
> trunk, but has been forked and a few API bits added (which will not be 
> upstreamed) for Rust use. Some of these API bits are required to build 
> gecko@ programs. 

This is most unfortunate. Can we have these few API bits added to our 
own port(s) of LLVM? And, maybe, even to the base? Yours,

    -mi