[LLVMdev] dot release for 3.4

[Daniel Sanders]

This post confused me until I spoke to Reed off-list so just to clarify:
Reed isn't talking about us releasing a Clang 3.4.x for MIPS. We currently plan to start releasing a 'Clang for MIPS*' beginning with Clang 3.5. Reed is talking about using a trunk version of Clang as the compiler used to build 'Clang 3.5 for MIPS*'. Beyond that point, we will then be able to use Clang 3.5 to build the Clang 3.6 release and so on.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu]
> On Behalf Of Reed Kotler
> Sent: 12 March 2014 23:10
> To: LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: [LLVMdev] dot release for 3.4
> 
> We are starting to move to using llvm/clang x86 as the starting point for mips
> native compilers.
> 
> It's important to make sure that gcc cross compilers can do this too but
> sometimes there are issues there; especially now as c++11 is moving into the
> foreground. We are working to also make sure this works.
> 
> As 3.5 llvm is probably around the corner; our use of clang/llvm for this
> starting point does not work with 3.4 but does work with current tip of tree
> and going back some amount of time too.
> 
> It would seem that dot releases would be important for others that want to
> have clang/llvm be the starting point for the following major releases.
> 
> In other words, a compiler which can be used to build the next one.
> 
> Reed
> 
> 
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