[LLVMdev] Contributing the Apple ARM64 compiler backend

Tim Northover
Fri, 28 Mar 2014 20:47:49 -0000

Hi Renato,
>> 2. Test it. Benchmark it. Explore it. Get data for the community to
work with about the state of the back end. ARM has some excellent data that will
help guide us here.
>
> Count me in. Would that be a different triple? arm64-linux-gnu?

Yep. "--target arm64-linux-gnu" should behave basically the same as
aarch64-linux-gnu, except ending up in the ARM64 backend. Complete
with the usual issues of finding your toolchain's includes & libs;
we've not solved that.

Cheers.

Tim.