[LLVMdev] LLVM Weekly - #76, Jun 15th 2015

[David Chisnall]

On 15 Jun 2015, at 17:45, Alex Bradbury <asb at asbradbury.org> wrote:
> 
> * Getting frustrated maintaining your out-of-tree LLVM backend? It's
> comforting for me at least to know things could be worse. Patrik Hägglund
> reports he and his colleague [maintain patches to support 16-bit bytes and
> 24/40-bit
> MachineValueTypes](http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/86730).

We maintain patches for 128-bit and 256-bit non-integer pointers in the machine-independent code generator - only having unusual integer types to worry about would be quite relaxing by comparison!

David