<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-86490a73-0142-e408-ccec-416020776d86"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear LLVM community,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We wanted to discuss the possibility of moving the Lanai backend from an experimental status to a regular backend. During the initial upstreaming of the Lanai backend (llvm-dev thread "[RFC] Lanai backend", </span><a href="http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-February/095118.html" style="text-decoration:none"><!--
--><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-February/095118.html</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) it was discussed that we could move out of experimental status after a few months of successful life within LLVM.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Lanai backend is actively maintained, it has an official ELF number assigned; we fix bugs and keep improving it. Therefore, we think the buildbots should build it. We are OK with changes being submitted as long as they don<!--
-->'t break the codegen tests - we'll examine the effects on runtime internally and will send out patches to fix things if problems occur.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best regards,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jacques & Lanai compiler dev team</span></p></span></div>