[cfe-dev] Policy for adding new TargetInfo to Clang?

[Chris Lattner]

On Apr 18, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Greg McGary wrote:

> Clang has no target definitions for several LLVM targets, notably:
>      mips, xcore, ia64, alpha, cell
> not to mention the non-machine targets:
>      MSIL, CppBackend, CBackend
>
> My personal interest is to observe a variety of LLVM target backends  
> in action and use clang to provide input for them.  Lacking  
> experience and access to some of these, I probably won't be able to  
> always provide complete& accurate sets of CPP predefines.  Question:  
> will you accept patches for new XXXTargetInfo classes that are  
> possibly incompete/inaccurate, but still useful for LLVM  
> experimentation?

Yes, I strongly prefer that you try to get the predefines and builtin  
data types *close* though.

-Chris
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