<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This is really exciting Kit, congratulations to you and your whole team! I know this has been a long journey,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 24, 2020, at 10:43 AM, Kit Barton via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9pt"><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi all,</div>
<div dir="ltr" class="">I'm very excited to be able to share this with everyone. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">IBM announced this morning our intention to migrate our existing XL C/C++ and Fortran compilers to adopt the LLVM infrastructure. This will include both front-end (Clang) and back-end optimizations and code generation.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">You can read the full announcement here:</div>
<div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="https://developer.ibm.com/linuxonpower/2020/02/23/ibm-c-c-and-fortran-compilers-to-adopt-llvm-open-source-infrastructure/" class="">https://developer.ibm.com/linuxonpower/2020/02/23/ibm-c-c-and-fortran-compilers-to-adopt-llvm-open-source-infrastructure/</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">If anyone has any questions/comments, I'm very happy to discuss further - either through email or on discord (my presence on IRC is very intermittent). </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt"><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt"><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt"><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt"><div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" class=""><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-size:0.857em;" class="">Kit Barton, Ph.D.<br class="">STSM, Technical lead for LLVM on Power and XL Compilers<br class="">IBM Toronto Lab, C2/705/8200/MKM<br class="">8200 Warden Ave, Markham, L6G 1C7<br class="">(905) 413-3452<br class=""><a href="mailto:kbarton@ca.ibm.com" class="">kbarton@ca.ibm.com</a></span></font></span></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="">
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