Re: VAX backend

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Aug 26, 2019, at 4:59 PM, Chris Hanson <cmhanson%eschatologist.net@localhost> wrote:
> 
> LLVM focused on a couple of RISC architectures *very* early in its life and I think that’s left a lot of people with the (incorrect) impression that it’s RISC-focused or somehow doesn’t support non-RISC architectures well.
> 
> Considering that the most used LLVM backends are ARM (32- and 64-bit) and x86 (32- and 64-bit) it’s entirely reasonable to implement support for architectures like VAX and Motorola 68000 in it as well. IBM for example maintains System/390 etc. back-ends.

Yes, there is no reason, in principle, that we couldn't support all of our existing CPU targets in LLVM.

-- thorpej