[flang-dev] MLIR for clang

[Prashanth N R via flang-dev]

Hi Michael-

1. We intent to fork clang for MLIR at a particular release and develop. We
will mostly merge with the master as soon as we reach a good milestones.
Most of the development is expected to happen in github or some such
version control system.
2. MLIR is extensible and we are hoping that constructs like exceptions can
be represented in MLIR. As we dive deep into design we might be able to
answer the question in detail.

thanks,
-Prashanth

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 2:11 AM Michael Kruse <llvm at meinersbur.de> wrote:

> Can you elaborate what your approach is? Do you intent to fork clang
> for MLIR at a specific version, keep up-to-date with master and/or try
> to upstream this?
>
> Do you think MLIR has all the semantics required, such as for
> representing exceptions?
>
> Michael
>
> Am So., 16. Feb. 2020 um 03:16 Uhr schrieb Prashanth N R via flang-dev
> <flang-dev at lists.llvm.org>:
> >
> >   Starting from May-June, we at "Compiler Tree" would  start porting
> clang compiler to use MLIR as middle end target. If someone has already
> started a similar effort we would love to collaborate with them. If someone
> would like to work with us, we are ready to form a group and collaborate.
> If there are sharing opportunities from Fortran side, we would like to
> consider the same.
> >
> >    We are in the early phase of design for "C" part of the work. From
> our experience with (FC+MLIR) compiler, we are estimating that we would
> have an early cut of the compiler working with non-trivial workload within
> a quarter of starting of work.
> >
> >   Please ping me for any queries or concerns.
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Prashanth
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