[LLVMdev] llvm 2.8 fixes?

[Chris Lattner]

On Oct 28, 2010, at 7:30 AM, Roland Scheidegger wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> hit by a bug in llvm 2.8, I was wondering if there are any stable
> release branches? The bug is only present in the release branch, and I
> have a fix for it (see attachment). IMHO the bug is quite bad, and
> workarounds are actually ugly and generate inefficient code (couldn't
> really come up with anything which actually generated correct code which
> didn't require at least a pshufb).

We have never done "dot" releases off the branch, but there is nothing that prevents doing it in the future, we just need someone to step up to be the release manager for the branch, define policies around what goes in, etc.

-Chris