They are only proposed at this point  but its from Apple and most of those
happen.. this is badly needed by other people too eg rust cant use precise
collection because  of it which has a huge flow on ( eg it explains why
 @pointers are avoided rather than being the default  and talk of removing
the gc )  , they estimate to do this is a 12 month job . They do have a job
for an LLVM engineer.  So i feel it will come from someone..

So i will use the shadowstack  until its ready .. there is a lot of other
stuff to build.  Worst case its 12 -18 months work to fork it which is a
small proportion of rolling out a language or run time
.

Ben

BTW did you get my email ?


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]>wrote:

> Ben:
>
> Do we think those two patches are plausible enough to do a temporary LLVM
> fork with them?
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Ben Kloosterman <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> From Rust list
>>
>> "There is a new proposal to add stack maps to LLVM for use by the JS
>> JIT: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/**pipermail/llvmdev/2013-**
>> October/066573.html<http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2013-October/066573.html>.
>> I haven't looked at the details, but this proposal is by Apple so it's
>> probably going to happen. Could end up being beneficial to us someday."
>>
>> "
>>
>> first client of these features is the JavaScript compiler within the
>> open source WebKit project."
>>
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