[LLVMdev] 64-bit Linux Support

Bill Wendling isanbard at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 08:12:23 PDT 2005


On 6/1/05, Misha Brukman <brukman at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:50:35AM -0400, Bill Wendling wrote:
> > It didn't look like there was a cftonend binary for the IA-64
> > platform. Are we supposed to use the x86 binaries instead?
> 
> The answer to that is that we don't have IA-64 in-house, so we don't
> provide an IA-64 C/C++ front-end, but if someone were to contribute it
> to us, we would gratefully host it.
> 
> Note that if you use the x86 frontend, you will generate 32-bit LLVM
> code, which is probably not what you want.  Instead, you want to build
> your own frontend if there are none available for your platform:
> 
> http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html
> 
> I noticed that it does not list IA-64 anywhere, but I assume the
> directions would be the same as for Linux/x86.  Let us know if that
> works for you, and I'll amend the doc accordingly.
> 
> Duraid, Al -- I am assuming you each built your own CFE to test on
> IA-64, any pointers?
> 
Thanks, Misha. I'll let you know how it goes. :-)

-bw




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