On 10 Nov 2009, at 23:00, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
With an LLVM backend, there will obviously be a dependency on LLVM
(either as a library or as an installed tool chain) and hence on its
dependencies, but it would be nice if we could be compatible with as
many different LLVM releases as possible at the same time (so that
people having to stick to an older LLVM version for whatever reason
can upgrade FPC independently of that). In that respect, I don't know
to what extent the C++ interface of the LLVM code generator is more
or
less stable than the assembler format (I know that the LLVM
developers
reserve the right to break backwards compatibility in the assembler
format only when releasing new major versions).
Since LLVM is a specific codegen, there would be simply a bunch of
llvm-<arch> targets with each their own PPC binary? So only the LLVM
ones
would be libc dependant.
Yes of course, but I was saying that those compiler binaries should be
compatible with an as wide selection of different LLVM versions as
possible.
Jonas
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