[llvm-dev] Is the CppBackend still supported?

Renato Golin via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon May 23 07:32:58 PDT 2016


On 23 May 2016 at 15:01, James Y Knight via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> There was, a long time ago, a backend that actually targetted C. It was
> deleted in 2012 at r153307.

It was largely unmaintained, and its tests were failing all the time
when we targeted other architectures.

I think it'd be cool to have a back-end targeting C/C++, but it'd have
to be reasonably self-contained and updated to continue in tree.

cheers,
--renato


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