[LLVMdev] C Backend's future

[David A. Greene]

Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> writes:

>> There's a big reason to keep it.  It's a godsend when trying to bugpoint
>> something where no working llc is available.  I've used it quite a lot
>> during AVX development, for example.  It's useful for developing any
>> new target.
>
> an alternative is to make the interpreter more powerful and have bugpoint
> use it rather than the C backend.

That would actually be better.  I've never tried the interpreter.  Do
you have a sense of what's needed to make it more powerful?

                                      -Dave