[llvm-dev] X86 backend code ownership

[Andrea Di Biagio via llvm-dev]

Fwiw, I also think that Craig would be a good code owner. So, my +1 goes to
him :-)

@Nadav, thanks again for all your kind help and contributions to the x86
backend!

-Andrea

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:20 AM, Craig Topper via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the support Nadav, Zvi, Chandler, Renato, and anyone else I
> missed.
>
> Quetin, to maybe address your concerns. My focus lately has been fixing
> inconsistency in instruction selection behavior between the older AVX
> instruction encodings and the new AVX512 encodings. I've also been trying
> to fix cases where concepts haven't been extended to wider vectors yet. For
> instance, the instcombine handling of x86 shift intrinsics. I've also been
> trying to remove AVX512 intrinsics for things that can be represented with
> native IR or where we can use a legacy instrinsic and only need a masking
> IR select instruction to support AVX512.
>
> ~Craig
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Quentin Colombet via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> Copy/pasting my concerns here to ease the reading:
>> Craig is indeed one of the main contributor of the X86 backend (in terms
>> of commits). My concern though is that Craig’s focus is on the assembly
>> (TableGen classes clean-up and such) and not so much on CodeGen (ISel and
>> various X86-specific passes) as far as I can tell.
>>
>> > On Nov 9, 2016, at 5:11 PM, Nadav Rotem via llvm-dev <
>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'd like to continue the discussion on the X86 backend ownership that
>> started here [1].  I think that Craig Topper would be a great code owner.
>> Several people replied to the email with +1s. Quentin had some concerns.
>> Let's continue the discussion.
>> >
>> > -Nadav
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > [1] - http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-November/
>> 106931.html.
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