[llvm-commits] [PATCH] Enable use of SPARC g2-g4 global registers

[Martin Whitaker]

Chris Lattner wrote:
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> On Jul 18, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Martin Whitaker wrote:
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>> Ping.
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>> Could someone familiar with SPARC comment?
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>> Revised patch (following Jakob's comments and subsequent discussion) attached again.
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> I guess I'm the closest thing to a sparc maintainer that we have, but I haven't used a sparc for ~8 years now.  The patch is fine with me, would you like to be the new sparc maintainer? :)
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> -Chris

Well, at the moment I'm just evaluating clang/llvm as a potential replacement 
for GCC, so would hesitate to make such a commitment unless/until I start 
using it in earnest (and until I have a bit more familiarity with the LLVM 
codebase!). I'm filling in a few of the missing features in the SPARC code 
generator to allow a fairer comparison with GCC, which is why I'm contributing 
patches now.

I see on the llvm-devel list that someone is looking at adding JIT support to 
the SPARC code generator, so there may be a better candidate for SPARC 
maintainer coming along...

Martin