[llvm-commits] The AArch64 LLVM (& Clang) target

[Renato Golin]

On 7 January 2013 12:57, Tim Northover <Tim.Northover at arm.com> wrote:

> I now finally have permission to start upstreaming the long-delayed backend
> for ARM's new 64-bit architecture, AArch64.
>

Hi Tim,

This is amazing news!


The current status of the backend is roughly as follows:
>   + In a large scale: C99 and C++03 code targeting ELF on Linux should be
>     supported. Problems there will be a high priority and are probably
> unknown
>     to us.
>

This means direct ELF generation AND via assembly?



>   + DWARF debugging should be supported.
>

As good as LLVM's Dwarf is for C++, which is not saying much. Did you guys
do any debugger tests?



>   + Inline assembly should be supported.
>

Nice!

I'll have a look at the patch later. Thanks for the hard work!

--renato
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