[LLVMdev] Integrated 'as' for PowerPC by default?

[Ulrich Weigand]

Gabor Greif <ggreif at gmail.com> wrote:

> as of v3.3 the integrated assembler seems to work fine.
> But it is not on by default. What is the obstacle for this last step?

Well, it's support is not complete ...  The integrated assembler
supports all general-purpose instructions the compiler itself
generates, but has only partial support for all the rest, in
particular nearly no support for any supervisor mode instructions.

This means that if you use inline asm to generate any of
those instructions (in particular in kernel code or other
code that runs in supervisor mode), this would fail when
using the internal assembler.

Bye,
Ulrich