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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>At the moment I am using LLVM to target our proprietary SHAVE processor, but the Movidius “Myriad” chip also utilises a Sparc Leon for executive functions. For this I use the GCC compiler.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>This all works fine, but I would like to consolidate code generation for both targets in the same LLVM derived compiler to simplify things and I have a couple of questions about the Sparc backend in LLVM I was wondering if someone could help me with.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>It is not 100% clear to me that the existing backend fully supports the Sparc V8 architecture, and the Leon variants in particular. Does anyone know whether this architecture is supported in the Sparc backend?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>How easy is it to configure the existing Sparc back-end for bi-endian code generation?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'> MartinO<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>Martin J. O’Riordan Email: <a href="mailto:Martin.ORiordan@movidius.com">Martin.ORiordan@movidius.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>Compiler Development Web: <a href="http://www.movidius.com/">www.movidius.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>Movidius Ltd. Skype: moviMartinO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>1st Floor, O’Connell Bridge House, d’Olier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>