[llvm-dev] WebAssembly into normal Target?

[Eric Christopher via llvm-dev]

Hi Dan,

Sure. That said I think people are just doing it anyhow :)

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 3:59 PM Dan Gohman <sunfish at mozilla.com> wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> We've been waiting until we stabilize various key interfaces, including
> the builtin functions, the C ABI, and the .o file format., as we'd like to
> avoid having users using packaged versions of LLVM producing C/C++ source
> files or .o/.a files that end up being incompatible with newer versions of
> LLVM.
>
> To my knowledge, all of the major issues are fixed now, and the only
> remaining blocker is that we need to decide what to do here:
>
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D43675 (Rename imported/exported memory symbol
> to __linear_memory)
>
>
On the bright side we just had a release so you'll have 6 mos to get that
ironed out? :)

Anyhow, can't tell if this is an objection on your part or not?

-eric


> Dan
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> WebAssembly has been around for a while now, it's still being actively
>> worked on and used. I think it's long past time we make it a normal target
>> so that it gets tested on a regular basis. (Most recent random breakage is
>> https://reviews.llvm.org/rL342576 which fails make check with web
>> assembly enabled).
>>
>> Any objections? I'll probably do this next week unless someone raises a
>> strong objection here.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -eric
>>
>
>
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