[LLVMdev] CBackend removal

Anton Korobeynikov anton at korobeynikov.info
Thu Apr 19 07:34:22 PDT 2012


> I'm periodically updating my local version of the LLVM, and, when I did it
> today, I couldn't use the llc with -march=c. Looking for the CBackend files,
> I realized that they were removed from the LLVM folder. I actually don't
> remember reading about a drop of this capability in any of the devlist
> messages, so I was wondering if this removal could be only temporary, or
> there will be no more support for this feature in LLVM.
CBackend was broken in many ways and thus removed. Patches to
introduce shiny new CBackend are welcome :)

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University



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