[LLVMdev] [lld] Removal of ELF PowerPC port

[Sidney Manning]

I'm OK with the removal of the PPC support.  It was a big-endian target and I thought it would be handy to have one at the time.

Thanks,

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Spencer [mailto:bigcheesegs at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 12:37 PM
To: Will Newton; Sidney Manning
Cc: llvm-dev
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] [lld] Removal of ELF PowerPC port

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Will Newton <will.newton at linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The PowerPC ELF backend of LLD is not in a particularly good state. It 
> supports one relocation, has one test, and it does not seem to have 
> received any commits other than tree-wide refactors since it was 
> initially committed. It is also structured slightly differently to the 
> other backends which means that refactoring patches that touch all the 
> backends are made more difficult.
>
> Is anyone interested in maintaining this backend or would it be better 
> to remove it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Will Newton
> Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
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I've CCed Sidney, who is the original committer of the PPC support.

I'm fine with removing it for now if nobody steps up as it's making refactors difficult.

- Michael Spencer