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There was, a long time ago, a backend that actually targetted C. It was deleted in 2012 at r153307. On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Stefan Gränitz <stefan.graenitz at gmail.com> wrote: > after realizing that it wasn't actually a backend that targetted c++ > (which might be useful) > > Exact same thing just happened to me.. it's not obvious, especially when > readi...

On 23 May 2016 at 15:01, James Y Knight via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > There was, a long time ago, a backend that actually targetted C. It was > deleted in 2012 at r153307. It was largely unmaintained, and its tests were failing all the time when we targeted other architectures. I think it'd be cool to have a back-end targeting C/C++, but it'd have to be reasonably self-contained and updated to continue in tree. cheers, --renato

> after realizing that it wasn't actually a backend that targetted c++ > (which might be useful) Exact same thing just happened to me.. it's not obvious, especially when reading the llc info: $ llc -version Registered Targets: arm - ARM arm64 - ARM64 (little endian) cpp - C++ backend x86 - 32-bit X86: Pentium-Pro and above x86-64

Yes, it's quite obviously dead and should be deleted. When I brought this up last time -- after realizing that it wasn't actually a backend that targetted c++ (which might be useful), but rather just something that emitted IR by calling llvm C++ functions (which really isn't IMO) -- someone also pointed out that it also really ought to be using IRBuilder...if anyone cared about it.