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| -rw-r--r-- | src/librustc_back/lib.rs | 15 |
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diff --git a/src/librustc_back/lib.rs b/src/librustc_back/lib.rs index f646102802b..b4c4118c76d 100644 --- a/src/librustc_back/lib.rs +++ b/src/librustc_back/lib.rs @@ -8,10 +8,23 @@ // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed // except according to those terms. +//! Some stuff used by rustc that doesn't have many dependencies +//! +//! Originally extracted from rustc::back, which was nominally the +//! compiler 'backend', though LLVM is rustc's backend, so rustc_back +//! is really just odds-and-ends relating to code gen and linking. +//! This crate mostly exists to make rustc smaller, so we might put +//! more 'stuff' here in the future. It does not have a dependency on +//! rustc_llvm. +//! +//! FIXME: Split this into two crates: one that has deps on syntax, and +//! one that doesn't; the one that doesn't might get decent parallel +//! build speedups. + #![crate_id = "rustc_back#0.11.0-pre"] #![crate_name = "rustc_back"] #![experimental] -#![comment = "The Rust compiler backend"] +#![comment = "The Rust compiler minimal-dependency dumping-ground"] #![license = "MIT/ASL2"] #![crate_type = "dylib"] #![crate_type = "rlib"] |