[LLVMdev] [RFC/PATCH][1/4] New SystemZ backend: LLVM code changes

[Kaylor, Andrew]

The MCJIT parts of the patch look good.

-Andy

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From: llvm-commits-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvm-commits-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Ulrich Weigand
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 11:00 AM
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Subject: [RFC/PATCH][1/4] New SystemZ backend: LLVM code changes


Hello,

this set of patches adds SystemZ support to base LLVM.  This is split up into three patches just to simplify review; they should be committed as a single change if approved.

The first patch adds SystemZ support to the configure logic and support for the systemz Triple.  This ought to be straightfoward.

The second patch adds changes to LLVM common code required to support the SystemZ ELF object format, including relocation types and processing and the runtime loader.  There is one change to common code that it not solely SystemZ related: the patch adds a new routine "getStubAlignment", which a target can use to inform common code that JIT stubs require a certain alignment.  Note that common code will not actually perform that alignment, but it will add enough extra space when allocating text sections to enable platform code to align its stubs accordingly.  [ This new routine will return 1 for all existing platforms, and thus ought not to change any existing behaviour.  ]

The third patch then adds all the backend files.  No further changes to common code are required to get the LLVM backend working.

[See also LLVMdev for the full set of SystemZ patches and discussion.]

Bye,
Ulrich

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