[LLVMdev] Has the Microchip PIC16 experimental backend been dropped from v2.9?

Eli Friedman eli.friedman at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 23:18:20 PDT 2011


On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Graham Reitz <grahamreitz at me.com> wrote:
> There is a ~/llvm-2.8/lib/Target/PIC16/ backend in llvm-2.8.  It doesn't appear to be present in llvm-2.9.
>
> Has that backend been dropped?

Yes; commit message for r116190:
"Per discussion with Sanjiv, remove the PIC16 target from mainline.  When/if
it comes back, it will be largely a rewrite, so keeping the old codebase
in tree isn't helping anyone."

-Eli




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