[LLVMdev] building an ARM backend

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Mon Apr 24 09:13:00 PDT 2006


On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Andrew Lenharth wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 08:50, Rafael EspĂ­ndola wrote:
>>> I have read the documentation and taken a look on the X86 back end.
>>> It looks quiet simple to get a very minimal back end working. I am
>>> considering for a first version:
>>
>> One of the RISC backends will make the work look a lot simpler :)
>
> Is it true that the new Sparc one is meant to be a good one to follow?

Yes.  It has the advantage of being small and simple, and is basically 
brand new (so it hasn't had to evolve across changes in the code 
generator).

-Chris

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