[LLVMdev] ARM JIT status.

[Yichao Yu]

Hi Renato,

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 26 November 2014 at 00:14, Yichao Yu <yyc1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Hi Yichao,
>
> So, MCJIT works well for x86 and PPC, and it works to a degree on ARM.
> Tom's team has been successfully using it for OpenCL, and this is a
> very good use case, but I wouldn't dare say it's "supported" on ARM
> without more people showing it working on ARM on other
> codebases/projects.
>
> We could update the documentation to say ARM is supported, but the
> danger in that is that people will come blazing when they find really
> basic bugs on ARM. I haven't had the time yet in a long while to
> investigate MCJIT, but last I checked it was working ok. We still have
> some XFAIL on the tests, and that's what keeps me from claiming
> support. Maybe they're bad tests, maybe it's just broken.
>
> I'll see if I can find some time to look at this more closely and
> update the docs. But the end result is the same, please use it, and if
> you break it, we should fix it.

Thank you very much for the explaination. What I need should be fairly
simple (basic flow control) but I will ask here if I see an issue.

>
> thanks,
> --renato

Yichao Yu