[LLVMdev] Contributing new backend to LLVM

Eli Friedman
Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:12:10 -0000

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Sergei Larin <slarin at codeaurora.org>
wrote:
> Eli,
>
>  When you say "include tests" what exactly do you mean - ability
to run
> newly produced binary on newly supported target?
> Can you please elaborate?

Well, it would be nice to know that it can produce working binaries,
but no, you don't need to provide tests like that.  Just make sure
there are tests in test/CodeGen/ to check that the backend generates
the expected assembly code for simple cases.

-Eli