[LLVMdev] is anyone using the alpha backend?

Dan Gohman gohman at apple.com
Tue Oct 25 09:01:54 PDT 2011


On Oct 24, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Jin Gu Kang wrote:

> Hi Dan,
> 
> Do you mind if I ask you what is the target-independent 
> codegen maintenance?
> 
> I imagine that target-independent codegen interface have to
> make with target-independent LLVM IR.
> 
> I'm also interested in target-independent properties on LLVM. :)

"Target-independent CodeGen" is jargon for code shared between the
various backends.  Despite the name, this isn't directly related to
target-independent properties of LLVM IR.

Dan




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