<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>A first patch to adjust compiler flags, etc. for an AIX build has been posted at <a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D58250">https://reviews.llvm.org/D58250</a>. Thank you, Xing!</div><div><br></div><div>-- HT<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:32 PM Chris Bowler via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">As part of IBM's ongoing efforts to
improve the AIX ecosystem, we are working on adding support for the AIX
platform to LLVM and Clang. Our goal is to have a viable C and C++ LLVM
compiler that runs and generates Power code on AIX. The tentative plan is to
initially support 32/64 bit mode in AIX 7.1/7.2. </span></p>

<p style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></p>

<p style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Our
initial patches will focus on C support for AIX. In particular, we will be
focusing on:</span></p>

<p style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">  1. Adding initial XCOFF object file support.</span></p>

<p style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">  2. Emitting assembly compatible with the AIX
system assembler. </span></p>

<p style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"></p>

<p style="line-height:normal;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">We
are also working on setting up AIX build bots and will update the list when we
have them ready to go.</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Any
feedback or comments are welcome.</span>    <br></div>
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