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Re:Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019 by Dylan16807 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @01:32PM (#20225293)
The lack of LLVM backend surprises me. How much work is it to add a backend with 60 instructions (and few addressing modes)? It's clearly far more than I would have guessed.
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Re:Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019 by benchaney on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @01:55PM (#20225465)
LLVM has an experimental Riscv backend. Adding it is easy. QAing it to the point that is can be considered non experimental is a lot of work.
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