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...nai backend", it seems to me that the "can I run the code coming out of the backend?" property is more about enabling LLVM's users to do interesting things with the backend, rather than about LLVM's internal maintenance. http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-February/095214.html I'm not sure how that affects the decision. My gut (and I'm actually not sure if I exactly consider this a pro or a con personally) is that is sounds Stallman-esque to require backends to answer "yes" to "can I run the code coming out of the backend?". If you squi...

On 19 July 2016 at 17:04, Martin J. O'Riordan via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > Presumably if my out-of-tree backend was to be pushed to LLVM, it too would be considered experimental. Yes. Though, not all out-of-tree back-ends end up upstream for different reasons. A few basic rules to get accepted are if: * the target exists and can be easily purchased / emulated