[LLVMdev] Contributing the Apple ARM64 compiler backend

[Bob Wilson]

On Mar 28, 2014, at 4:17 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

> On Mar 28, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Bob Wilson <bob.wilson at apple.com> wrote:
>> There are new conflicts several times a day, on average. I rebased them on Wednesday on top of svn 204791. If you want to try them out, it would be best to roll back to that revision.
>> 
>> I’ll rebase them one more time when we commit them, but it’s such a moving target (and takes a fair bit of work), that I’d rather wait until we’re ready to commit.
> 
> There has been universal support for merging it in, so lets do it.  Please start by commiting the llvm part (i.e. lib/Target/ARM64, tests, etc).  We should have a similar discussion on cfe-dev to get those changes reviewed, and commit the clang pieces when that settles out.
> 
> The libc++, compiler_rt, and lldb piece should be separately reviewed and explained before they go in.
> 
> Thanks Bob (and everyone who worked on the apple arm64 backend!)

Tim has volunteered to commit the initial changes tomorrow. Things should be a little quieter then because its a Saturday. I’m rebasing the changes one more time now.