[LLVMdev] What is the state of LLVM's ARM backend

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

2009/4/1 Robert Schuster <theBohemian at gmx.net>:
> Hi,
> the ARM backend lacks some stuff like support for atomic intrinsics. I
> learned the hard way (crash). Lately I was told that the ARM backend of
> LLVM is generally in its early stages of development.
>
> I would like to know more about this. Which stuff is missing, known to
> be unstable and the like.
>
> Thanks in advance for taking the time.
>
> Regards
> Robert
>

>From my experience, the ARM backend fails miserably on all except the
most trivial uses of first class aggregates. For our project, this is
a complete blocker on ARM platforms.

-Tomas