[LLVMdev] [RFC] WebAssembly Backend

[Chris Lattner]

On Jun 17, 2015, at 9:16 AM, Dan Gohman <dan433584 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would the LLVM community be willing to let us start a new target from
> scratch within the LLVM tree, following normal LLVM
> incremental-development practices? The target would naturally start as
> "experimental", excluded from the default build. The code organization
> would look like any other backend, with everything under
> lib/Target/WebAssembly except for various bits of configury that any
> backend needs. We have need of the functionality provided by
> SelectionDAG, MI and others, so this will pretty clearly be a backend,
> rather than a specialized serialization. Also, the people leading the
> project are JF Bastien and Dan Gohman, existing LLVM contributors
> familiar with various relevant areas of LLVM.

Sounds great to me,

-Chris