Messages in this thread | | | From | Ramkumar Ramachandra <> | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:19:05 +0530 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/asm: avoid mnemonics without type suffix |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok. So your commit message and explanation was pure and utter tripe, > and the real reason you want this is that llvm-mc is broken. > > Please fix llvm-mc instead, ok? If the intent of llvm is to be > compatible with the gnu compiler tools, then it should do that. Plus > the gas behavior is clearly superior, so why not just improve the llvm > toolchain to match those improved semantics?
Yep. I started the discussion on LLVMDev, and posted patches [1]. From the discussions on the list, many of the devs are claiming that LLVM is "correct" and that linux.git needs to be patched. I'm not taking sides; I just want a solution to the problem.
[1]: The archive is broken, but here are some pieces: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130708/180968.html
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