[llvm-dev] [RFC] Removing PowerPC/Darwin Support?

[Eric Christopher via llvm-dev]

I'm a fan. I find the current syntax to be... difficult :)

-eric

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:53 AM Hal Finkel via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> I agree, we should keep a mode that prints register names (instead of just
> the numbers). I lean toward having a verbose mode that is compatible with
> the GNU assembler, which means %r1 instead of just r1. gas will also accept
> that syntax, so it seems more useful than the Darwin syntax on current
> systems. What do you think?
>
>  -Hal
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "James Y Knight" <jyknight at google.com>
> > To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
> > Cc: "llvm-dev" <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>, "Ehsan A Amiri" <
> amehsan at ca.ibm.com>, "Iain Sandoe" <iain at codesourcery.com>
> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 10:37:44 AM
> > Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] [RFC] Removing PowerPC/Darwin Support?
> >
> >
> > The only part I'd like to see *NOT* removed is the darwin PPC asm
> > format. Not because I care about ppc/darwin, but because that format
> > is like 1000x easier to read -- especially for those of us who
> > aren't PPC experts -- than the insane standard PPC assembly format.
> > :)
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Hal Finkel via llvm-dev <
> > llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I don't believe that anyone is currently using (a recent) LLVM on
> > PowerPC/Darwin. As far as I know, Apple stopped supporting PowerPC
> > hardware years ago. There is a significant amount of code in the
> > PowerPC backend dedicated to Darwin support and removing it would
> > make maintaining the rest of the backend easier. If anyone expects
> > upcoming LLVM releases to continue to support PowerPC/Darwin, please
> > speak up.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Hal
> >
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> > Hal Finkel
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> > Leadership Computing Facility
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