[LLVMdev] Stack maps no longer experimental in 3.5

[Eric Christopher]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Andrew Trick <atrick at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 6, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> It is my understanding that now WebKit depends on the stack map
> functionality in production. Also, on the mailing lists we've seen lots of
> users using in this feature. Can we eliminate the experimental status for
> 3.5?
>
>
> Correct. It is in production software and has multiple clients.
>
> However, it may be worth doing another round of RFC before we pin down the
> intrinsic. There is an extension I would like to make, and I want to make
> sure we have covered the use cases of other clients that are just
> considering using the intrinsic but haven’t finalized their designs.
>

Agreed.

> I planned to send another proposal next week. Based on that discussion we
> can determine whether to extend the existing intrinsics or add new
> intrinsics for new features.
>

*nod*

> Off the top of my head, the changes needed are:
>
> - A read-through of StackMaps.rst to remove any mention of it being
> experimental.
> - Removing mention of it being experimental from
> http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#stack-map-intrinsics
> - Removing the `.experimental` from the name.
>
> Anything else?
>
>
> Sounds good.
>
> (also, we'll have to put some stuff in
> http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html)
>
>
> Right. I’m not in any particular hurry to make 3.5. Let’s see how the
> discussion goes next week.
>

Sounds good to me. Thanks.

-eric