[LLVMdev] fixed point support

[Jonas Paulsson]

Hi,

I am investigating the possibilities of incorporating fixed point support into the LLVM I/R.

So far, I have experimented a bit with defining a new type, adding some instructions and extended some simple cases of optimization. What is needed is a full support of types, instructions and rewriting of optimization passes etc so as to fully incoorporate the type.

We find it important to make this part of future releases, so as to ensure a good software evolution.

We would like to know your view on all this. What would you like to see happen for an inclusion of fixed point support in the near future, in a premise of long term support?

If I were to write the code myself, what would you expect then prior to merging? Any procedure / contacts I should know of?

Are there any developers ready that you know of that are competent with LLVM and willing to do this work in a swift manner?

Best regards,

Jonas Paulsson
Master of Science, CS
Ericsson AB

 		 	   		  
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