[llvm-dev] Status of the AVR backend

[Jake Goulding via llvm-dev]

I'd like to profusely thank Dylan for the large amount of work this has
entailed! This is exciting news, and I'm sure the Rust community looks
forward to thoroughly exercising this new platform.

-Jake

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Dylan McKay <dylanmckay34 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> The AVR backend has now finally been merged in-tree completely.
>
> Thanks to Krzysztof and Matt for all of their hard work reviewing patches
> <https://reviews.llvm.org/differential/query/AuHaJ3SXjDmO>
>
> Development will now halt on the downstream repository (on GitHub
> <https://github.com/avr-llvm/llvm>), and it will now be done LLVM proper.
>
> This is good news, especially for the embedded Rust community, as it will
> be much easier to maintain it now.
>
> Next steps
>
>    - A buildbot will be added for the backend
>    - Support will be added to clang to support the backend (if it is
>    desired)
>
> ​
>
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