[llvm-commits] [llvm-gcc-4.2] r55783 - in /llvm-gcc-4.2/trunk/gcc: llvm-convert.cpp llvm-internal.h

[Dale Johannesen]

On Sep 5, 2008, at 1:19 AMPDT, Duncan Sands wrote:

> Hi Dale,
>
>> I think it's wrong for the back end to be keying off the C names; not
>> all languages are C, not all dialects are C99, and not all  
>> environments
>> are hosted.
>
> I also don't like keying off the name.  Maybe the SimplifyLibcalls  
> pass
> could turn calls to math functions ("sin") into calls to llvm  
> intrinsics
> ("llvm.sin"), which would concentrate this kind of thing in one place.

I think that is too late; we should already be into language- 
independent code by that time.

> Ciao,
>
> Duncan.
>
> PS: I guess that would also mean that there is no need for llvm-gcc
> to generate the llvm intrinsics: it would happen automagically.