[PATCH] [RFC PATCH] BPF backend

[Renato Golin]

On 3 December 2014 at 22:09, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could I ask who's going to maintain this backend? Targets without an
> active LLVM sub-community behind them tend to slowly bit-rot until
> everyone else gets fed up enough with fixing it when they refactor
> things; they then get removed.

That was the first thing I told him. :)

Due to the nature of this backend, the tests should all pass on any
machine, so our current buildbots should be enough to cover the
CI-loop issue. But we need someone that can help developers figure out
what's wrong with their commits, both pre and pos-commit. For the time
being, Alexei will have to be that person, and he seemed willing to
take on that responsibility. So, by becoming code owner of his own
back-end, Alexei should be easy to reach when people look at the list
of owners.

I don't envision a lot of failures because the back-end is *really*
simple. Things like invalid types, library calls, struct byval,
bitfields, anonymous unions and general optimizations should not
change much of the tests on his back-end. Most of the other commits
should be pretty orthogonal.

cheers,
--renato