[LLVMdev] Re: Notes on the release notes for the fifth public release of LLVM

[Chris Lattner]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Jeff Cohen wrote:
> Well, Henrik has a point.  As of now, the only thing LLVM is good for
> when built with VS is the JIT engine, and then only if you're willing to
> write your own front end--or be satisfied computing fibonacci numbers :)

Okay, I updated the release notes, please take a look all. :)

If it still not accurate, please give me something I can put in there that
would work better :)

-Chris

> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:37:43 +0100
> "Henrik Bach" <henrik_bach_llvm at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well Chris,
> >
> > then I've to ask the guys who really have the hands into the guts of the
> > VC++ code:
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Henrik Bach wrote:
> >
> >  > Hi Chris,
> >  >
> >  > I'm reading release notes for the fifth public release of LLVM and came
> >  > across this line:
> >  >
> >  > "The LLVM source code is now compatible with Microsoft Visual C++."
> >  >
> >  > which is almost true, if we could build the llvm tools by VC++. However,
> > as
> >  > I see it, we are only able to build tablegen and an x86 backend able to
> >  > execute embedded llvm programs.
> >  >
> >  > What we have achieve for VC++ aren't bad at all. Just to mention the fact
> > as
> >  > I see it.
> >
> > Ok, I'm most interested in being precise.  Can you suggest something more
> > correct to say?
> >
> > -Chris
> >
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