[LLVMdev] PowerPC codegen experts looking for challenges?

[Gabor Greif]

On 3/16/12, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:32:47 +0100
> Gabor Greif <ggreif at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> at my paid job I am pushing the Clang/LLVM combo into evaluation (we
>> currently use a gcc3.4 generation toolchain).
>
> Great!
>
>  Since we produce for the
>> embedded domain we need a reliable
>> host (i.e. simulation i686) / target (PPC) dual setup. To this end I
>> almost succeeded grinding through our large(ish) codebase but found
>> some PPC snags.
>>
>> I filed these bugs, complete with repro IR code:
>>
>> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=12201
>
> Interesting. I'll try to get this fixed next week.

Hi Hal,

thanks for fixing 12203, I can probably confirm this week. Meanwhile
do you have an ETA for 12201?

Cheers,

    Gabor
>
>> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=12203
>
> Roman and I have been working on this one over the last few days;
> expect a fix soon.
>
> Please keep submitting bug reports; there are a number of us who are
> interested in PPC support.
>
>  -Hal
>
>>
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