[llvm-dev] [RFC] AAP Backend

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On 18 August 2016 at 15:16, Ed Jones <ed.jones at embecosm.com> wrote:
> I don't think they're absolutely necessary. Also when I say that we have
> large pointers, it is only when emitting code. Pointers are 16-bits
> internally, but we use a 32-bit ELF with the upper 16-bit used to store
> flags such as the address space.

Ahn, right, this makes it a lot simpler.

Well, may make your back-end more complicated, but makes upstreaming simpler. :)


> The other generic change is not absolutely necessary, and we could avoid
> it by changing the calling convention.

It may not be necessary, let's see what the patches look like, so we
can discuss with actual code.

cheers,
--renato