[LLVMdev] Announcing 3.1 Release Branch Date!

Bill Wendling
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:33:38 -0000

On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Jim Grosbach <grosbach at apple.com> wrote:

> On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:46 AM, 陳韋任 <chenwj at iis.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>
>>> By the way, we are looking for ARM testers. There was a lot of
interest in the 3.0 release for an ARM release. We will try to do one this
release on a trial basis. We are looking for ARMv7 cortex-a8 and cortex-a9 on
Linux.
>>
>> We have two pandard board (ARMv7 cortex-a9) and perhaps one ARMv6
>> 4-cores board. Do we do a native compile or cross compile for the ARM
>> platform?
>>
>
> My personal preference is to prioritize qualifying as a cross compiler
first and a hosted compiler second. I have no problems with doing both other
than the additional testing resources required, though.
>
I agree with Jim. While having a native ARM compiler might be nice, it's not
something I want to embark on for this release.

-bw