[llvm-dev] RFC: Adding support for the z/OS platform to LLVM and clang

[Kai Peter Nacke via llvm-dev]

Eli Friedman <efriedma at quicinc.com> wrote on 10.06.2020 21:30:26:

> From: Eli Friedman <efriedma at quicinc.com>
> To: Kai Peter Nacke <kai.nacke at de.ibm.com>, "llvm-
> dev at lists.llvm.org" <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> Date: 10.06.2020 21:30
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: [llvm-dev] RFC: Adding support for the z/OS 
> platform to LLVM and clang
> 
> I'm not that familiar with the C++ library bits, but looks fine at 
> first glance.
> 
> For EBCDIC source files, what you've outlined matches what we've 
> discussed previously when the topic has come up on cfe-dev.
> 
> For GOFF object generation, we want to make sure that we can write 
> reasonable tests for patches at each stage.  If there's no assembly 
> output, we have to verify GOFF binary output.  And probably the only
> reasonable way to do that is to first teach llvm-objdump to understand 
GOFF.

Yes, for sure. Our idea is to use llvm-readobj and llvm-objdump for tests.

Best regards,
Kai Nacke
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