Re: [avr-llvm-devel] current status and future direction of theavr-llvm project

[Weddington, E. <Eri...@at...>]

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Myers [mailto:ato...@gm...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:23 PM
> To: avr...@li...
> Subject: Re: [avr-llvm-devel] current status and future 
> direction of theavr-llvm project
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> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Josef Eisl 
> <za...@za...> wrote:
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> 	Compiling against llvm trunk is currently broken but 
> since the 2.6
> 	release is not that old this should be easy to fix.
> 	
> 	The question is if we should work on trunk or on the 
> latest release? I
> 	would prefer working on trunk.
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> I believe working on the trunk is important otherwise we 
> could fall too far behind the current state of the LLVM src. 
> I think the major issue with working on the trunk is the LLVM 
> developers seem very active making it harder to put time into 
> making the AVR port work rather then keeping up with new 
> features and re-factoring of the src code. I started working 
> on the 2.6 branch since I'm still trying to learn the 
> structure of LLVM but they keep on changing/improving it in the trunk.

That's why I'm hoping that combining our resources and work can help to move this project forward.

So at least we all agree that we should work on the trunk. It does make the most sense.