[LLVMdev] Contributing the Apple ARM64 compiler backend

James Grosbach
2014-03-28T23:41:40Z

On Mar 28, 2014, at 4:27 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 28, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Bob Wilson <bob.wilson at apple.com>
wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> The libc++, compiler_rt, and lldb piece should be separately
reviewed and explained before they go in.
>>>
>>> Thanks Bob (and everyone who worked on the apple arm64 backend!)
>>
>> 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!

Agreed. And thank you to everyone for the great feedback and reception to this
contribution. This is going to be fantastic to get integrated.

-Jim


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