[LLVMdev] X86-64 support checked in
Evan Cheng
evan.cheng at apple.com
Fri Sep 8 11:24:07 PDT 2006
Hi all,
I have checked in the X86-64 backend support. It's functionality
complete but not tuned for performance. Comments / patches welcome. :-)
However, at this point it is difficult for most of you to make use of
it. The current llvm-gcc builds do not support the -m64 (or -arch
x86_64) option so there is no easy way to compile for X86-64. If you
really want to try it out, you can manually replace the following
lines in the llvm bytecode files from
target pointersize = 32
target triple = "i686-apple-darwin8"
to
target pointersize = 64
target triple = "x86_64-apple-darwin8"
Substitute appropriate strings for Linux, etc.
Pass the modified the bytecode file to llc and it should generate 64-
bit assembly. Alternatively, use the -mtriple= option without
modifying the bytecode file.
Cheers,
Evan
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