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Re: [llvm-dev] DragonEgg for GCC v8.x and LLVM v6.x is just able to work
- From: Chris Lattner <clattner at nondot dot org>
- To: Leslie Zhai <lesliezhai at llvm dot org dot cn>
- Cc: llvm-dev at lists dot llvm dot org, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 21:10:02 -0700
- Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] DragonEgg for GCC v8.x and LLVM v6.x is just able to work
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> On Sep 4, 2017, at 8:13 PM, Leslie Zhai via llvm-dev <llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> Hi LLVM and GCC developers,
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> LLVM China http://www.llvm.org.cn forked DragonEgg https://github.com/LLVM-China/dragonegg because:
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> * Some subprojects are impractical or uninteresting to relicense (e.g. llvm-gcc and dragonegg). These will be split off from the LLVM project (e.g. to separate Github projects), allowing interested people to continue their development elsewhere. http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-August/116266.html
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> * There are a lot of issues https://github.com/xiangzhai/dragonegg/issues so I need smarter developers' help.
Hi Leslie,
Out of curiosity, what is motivating this work? What is the usecase for dragonegg these days, now that Clang has great C++ support? Are you interested in Ada + LLVM or some other frontend?
-Chris