[cfe-commits] [llvm-commits] The AArch64 LLVM (& Clang) target

[Tim Northover]

Hi Renato,

On Monday 07 Jan 2013 14:05:09 Renato Golin wrote:
> The current status of the backend is roughly as follows:
>   + In a large scale: C99 and C++03 code targeting ELF on Linux should be
>     supported. Problems there will be a high priority and are probably
> unknown to us.
>
> This means direct ELF generation AND via assembly?

Direct ELF generation is what we test and is believed to be stable. Assembly
probably mostly works, but equally there may be GAS dialect differences and it
hasn't been strongly validated.

>   + DWARF debugging should be supported.
>
> As good as LLVM's Dwarf is for C++, which is not saying much. Did you guys
> do any debugger tests?

Not formally yet; it's been useful to me when tracking down bugs though.

> I'll have a look at the patch later. Thanks for the hard work!

Thanks.

Tim.

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