[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] [RFC] TileGX, a new backend for Tilera's many core processor

[Bill Wendling]

On Mar 8, 2013, at 3:26 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 11:13:04AM -0800, Bill Wendling wrote:
>> The LLVM community prefers small, self-contained patches. Please split
>> up your patches into small chunks that can be easily reviewed. Keep in
>> mind that the compiler needs to work after each pass goes in. :-)
> 
> Just like with AArch64, this is not a reasonable requirement for a new
> backend. The tarball contains essentially three different parts:
> (1) Generic changes to recogniz TileGX as triple etc.
> (2) The target subdirectory.
> (3) The clang logic for va_arg etc.
> 
> While (1) can be and should be split off, it doesn't change match in
> terms of patch size, since the majority will stay in item (2).
> 
There are exceptions to every rule. :-) The upshot is that it needs to be fairly easy to review.

-bw