Re: [avr-llvm-devel] Just getting started, but eager to help (subscribed to the list this time...)

[John M. <ato...@gm...>]

Hi Anton,


On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Anton Staaf <an...@so...> wrote:

>     Hello Borja, John, Eric and all,
>
I would love to see great Clang/LLVM support for the AVR architecture.  And
> so I'm hoping to help out here.
>
Do you have a sourceforge account?


>     The two issues I ran into are that TargetMachine::getFrameInfo() has
> been renamed to TargetMachine::getFrameLowering() and that
> TargetLowering::ReplaceNodeResults was not implemented in AVRTargetLowering.
>  I don't expect that the patches below will be very useful by them selves.
>  I'm more curious if I'm at least on the right page.
>
> Which svn version are you using? Some of the changes in your patches are
already committed (rev 110). You're on the right page but wrong sentence :)
There is a lot of refactoring of clang/LLVM like this which sometimes makes
it hard to keep up with ToT of clang/LLVM. For me at least it's been a good
way of becoming a little more familiar with the internals of LLVM.



>     It seems like until the new backend is available it may be more worth
> my time looking into helping out with the Clang cross compilation work.  In
> particular the TargetInfo being baked into libs/Basic/Targets.cpp seems like
> an area for cleanup.  I think that there was a thread about this on the
> clang list recently.  I'll do some more reading there.
>
>     Thanks,
>         Anton
>

Yeah, I agree. I've been spending my time trying to get familiar with clang
and how the toolchain/driver code works.


--John