[LLVMdev] Old JIT Status (i.e., can we delete it?)

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Sat Nov 24 14:36:00 PST 2012


As others have said, unfortunately it is premature to remove the old jit.  I don't know of anyone using the EH code though... It can almost certainly be removed!

-Chris

On Nov 23, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Rafael EspĂ­ndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Writing some patches for MC I noticed that the old (non MC) JIT still
> has a lot of duplicated code for producing EH frames which makes it a
> bit harder to refactor code used by both implementations.
> 
> Given that MCJIT is making good progress and that we just branched
> 3.2, can we delete the old JIT or at least its EH support? The
> attached patch removes just the EH bits.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rafael
> <t.patch>
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