Remove TypeBuilder.h, and fix the few locations using it.

This shortcut mechanism for creating types was added 10 years ago, but
has seen almost no uptake since then, neither internally nor in
external projects.

The very small number of characters saved by using it does not seem
worth the mental overhead of an additional type-creation API, so,
delete it.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56573

llvm-svn: 351020

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst b/llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst
index 88c56700eb3..0903a22fc3e 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst
@@ -2905,37 +2905,6 @@ For example:
   GV->eraseFromParent();
 
 
-.. _create_types:
-
-How to Create Types
--------------------
-
-In generating IR, you may need some complex types.  If you know these types
-statically, you can use ``TypeBuilder<...>::get()``, defined in
-``llvm/Support/TypeBuilder.h``, to retrieve them.  ``TypeBuilder`` has two forms
-depending on whether you're building types for cross-compilation or native
-library use.  ``TypeBuilder<T, true>`` requires that ``T`` be independent of the
-host environment, meaning that it's built out of types from the ``llvm::types``
-(`doxygen <http://llvm.org/doxygen/namespacellvm_1_1types.html>`__) namespace
-and pointers, functions, arrays, etc. built of those.  ``TypeBuilder<T, false>``
-additionally allows native C types whose size may depend on the host compiler.
-For example,
-
-.. code-block:: c++
-
-  FunctionType *ft = TypeBuilder<types::i<8>(types::i<32>*), true>::get();
-
-is easier to read and write than the equivalent
-
-.. code-block:: c++
-
-  std::vector<const Type*> params;
-  params.push_back(PointerType::getUnqual(Type::Int32Ty));
-  FunctionType *ft = FunctionType::get(Type::Int8Ty, params, false);
-
-See the `class comment
-<http://llvm.org/doxygen/TypeBuilder_8h_source.html#l00001>`_ for more details.
-
 .. _threading:
 
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