[llvm] r182092 - [PowerPC] Merge/rename PPC fixup types

[Ulrich Weigand]

David Fang <fang at csl.cornell.edu> wrote on 24.05.2013 22:27:12:

> I would ideally like to close the loop and take llvm/clang-produced asm
> and feed that back into llvm-mc, if the PPCAsmParser supports it.
Ulrich,
> does the PPCAsmParser parse Apple-asm syntax, like 'r' in register names?
> I hand-tested the hello-printf.s produced for PPC/mach-o and it griped
> about invalid operands, and unknown '.machine' directives.

So far, the asm parser supports GNU/Linux syntax only.  However, for
full Darwin support we certainly ought to add Darwin syntax support
to the asm parser too; some other platforms already do that.  I'd
have to check what exactly would be needed in the back-end.

Bye,
Ulrich

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