[LLVMdev] Contributing the Apple ARM64 compiler backend

[Bob Wilson]

On Mar 28, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Jevin Sweval <jevinsweval at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:17 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!)
>> 
>> -Chris
> 
> Is the LLDB patch missing? I only see libc++, compiler-rt, LLVM, and
> Clang patches.

We have a patch for LLDB but it is combined with a variety of other changes. Someone will have to go through and sort those out first.