[LLVMdev] CBackend removal

[Dmitry N. Mikushin]

Dear all,

I've also noticed C backend was removed a little bit... silently. In
the end of March I only got open bugs closed by Benjamin Kramer in
bugzilla, but they sounded like "decision is made". So the question
is: it such silent removal a normal practice? In times of 3.0 release
there were long discussions on what to drop and what to preserve, e.g.
sparc backend, if I remember correctly.

In our project we are very interested in maintaining usable C backend,
at least until there will be at least one full and production quality
PTX backend.

Best regards,
- Dima

2012/4/19 Anton Korobeynikov <anton at korobeynikov.info>:
>> I'm periodically updating my local version of the LLVM, and, when I did it
>> today, I couldn't use the llc with -march=c. Looking for the CBackend files,
>> I realized that they were removed from the LLVM folder. I actually don't
>> remember reading about a drop of this capability in any of the devlist
>> messages, so I was wondering if this removal could be only temporary, or
>> there will be no more support for this feature in LLVM.
> CBackend was broken in many ways and thus removed. Patches to
> introduce shiny new CBackend are welcome :)
>
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> With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
> Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University
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