<div dir="ltr"><div style>Hi Behan,</div><div style><br></div><div style>First of all, I'd like to thank you guys from working on the Linux side of LLVM, this work has long been push back in the agenda of many companies as "that will never happen", and you guys are proving all of them (and myself) wrong. I really appreciate it.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Second, some introduction: So far, I'm the only LLVM guy at Linaro and am obviously focused on stabilizing the LLVM correctness and performance tests, so that we can start work on it without the fear of breaking things that are working. This will also reassure your patches that they have been properly tested in the open.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Not just for ARM, but some of the fixes I sent, and will send in the next weeks also fixes x86 and PPC test-suites, getting them green as a quick and dirty way of spotting regressions. Unfortunately, the other back-ends fixes were "collateral damage", so I can't myself focus on getting them green as well as ARM (though I'd like to).</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Now, on to specific topics inline...</div><div style><br></div><div><br></div>On 16 March 2013 00:48, Behan Webster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:behanw@converseincode.com" target="_blank">behanw@converseincode.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style><br></div><div style>So, not much to report so far, but there is a cross-team plan to get Android built with LLVM in the long term. Sadly, not priority number one, but something we'll not forget.</div><div>
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<div style><br></div><div style>Thanks for all the hard work!</div><div style><br></div><div style>cheers,</div><div style>--renato</div></div></div></div>