[LLVMdev] Contributing the Apple ARM64 compiler backend

Chris Lattner
2014-03-28T23:27:37Z

On Mar 28, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Bob Wilson <bob.wilson at apple.com> wrote:

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> On Mar 28, 2014, at 4:17 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com>
wrote:
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>> On Mar 28, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Bob Wilson <bob.wilson at apple.com>
wrote:
>>> There are new conflicts several times a day, on average. I rebased
them on Wednesday on top of svn 204791. If you want to try them out, it would be
best to roll back to that revision.
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>>> I’ll rebase them one more time when we commit them, but it’s such a
moving target (and takes a fair bit of work), that I’d rather wait until we’re
ready to commit.
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>> There has been universal support for merging it in, so lets do it.
Please start by commiting the llvm part (i.e. lib/Target/ARM64, tests, etc).  We
should have a similar discussion on cfe-dev to get those changes reviewed, and
commit the clang pieces when that settles out.
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>> The libc++, compiler_rt, and lldb piece should be separately reviewed
and explained before they go in.
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>> Thanks Bob (and everyone who worked on the apple arm64 backend!)
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> Tim has volunteered to commit the initial changes tomorrow. Things should
be a little quieter then because its a Saturday. I’m rebasing the changes one
more time now.

Sounds great, thank you Tim!

-Chris