[LLVMdev] ARM JIT status.

[Yichao Yu]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Tom Gall <tom.gall at linaro.org> wrote:
> It's out of date.
>
> We're using MCJIT on ARM to implement an OpenCL on CPU implementation. It works!

Thanks. Great to hear that!!!

Maybe could someone please update that page.... It's really confusing.

Cheers,
Yichao

>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Yichao Yu <yyc1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Yichao Yu <yyc1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am sorry if this question have been brought up too many times but
>>> the document does seems a little bit confusing on this.
>>>
>>> According to the official feature page[1]
>>> ARM is not a supported target (for JIT at least...).
>>>
>>> However, according to this email[2] on the list and this related bug
>>> report[3] from earlier this year, it seems that the JIT engine is
>>> working well on ARM.
>>>
>>> Is the feature page just out-of-date? If yes, which version has ARM jit support?
>>
>> Just to clarify my question, I am talking about MCJIT, and not the old one.
>>
>>>
>>> I am developing a system running on Linux on Zynq from Xilinx and it
>>> would be really nice if I can use LLVM to improve our performance and
>>> flexibility.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Yichao Yu
>>>
>>> [1] http://llvm.org/Features.html
>>> [2] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/74937
>>> [3] http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20329
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