Re: Bountysource campaign to complete the M680x0 LLVM backend

["Kevin P. Neal" <kpn%neutralgood.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 01:09:30AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> We created a Bountysource campaign [1] to support the finalization of the
> M680x0 LLVM backend that was initially written by Artyom Goncharov [2].
> 
> Completing the LLVM backend would allow us to support Rust on m68k and
> more. The BSD community would get a C/C++ compiler for m68k with
> a permissive license.

The LLVM community isn't going to let it get put into the tree unless there
are people to support the thing going forward. They don't carry unmaintained
backends as a general rule no matter how complete they are.

Is there a plan for someone to maintain the thing? Otherwise you've got
a fork of LLVM forever.
-- 
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invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor ...
in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser ... in an irregular way
fascinating to cats,..." -- US patent 5443036, "Method of exercising a cat"