[LLVMdev] Proposal: add Go frontend subproject based on llgo

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:53:17PM -0800, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> llgo depends on certain third-party components, namely a copy of the Go
> standard library (libgo), a Go program analysis library (go.tools) and two
> library dependencies of the standard library (libbacktrace and libffi).

I think providing a better alternative to libffi is already a goal of
some people, but what is libbacktrace needed for? What is not provided
by the Itanium Unwind ABI?

Joerg