Re: LLVM and Ada

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 4:36:32 PM UTC-5, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 4:28:50 PM UTC-5, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> > On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 4:14:03 PM UTC-5, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> > > There was no work, I got his repo compiling with his help. See the issues.
> > 
> > Ah, this one:
> > 
> > https://github.com/xiangzhai/dragonegg/issues/33
> 
> There, I submitted an issue to explore the degree of intended on-going activity on his fork.
> 
> https://github.com/xiangzhai/dragonegg/issues/34
> 
> Plus, it would do him good for himself to track via the regression test-suites just how broken or not
> DragonEgg is.

Xiang Leslie ZHAI replied.  His reply appears to confirm that this maintained DragonEgg builds and somehow transfers GIMPLE to LLVM intermediate representation (to what fidelity?) but does not yet generate machine code in LLVM from that IR:

https://github.com/xiangzhai/dragonegg/issues/34#issuecomment-377529336

“It has to fix #31 before regression test, dragonegg for gcc-8 and llvm-7 is just able to transfer GIMPLE -> LLVM IR, but failed to CodeGen https://www.zhihu.com/question/265150161

Regards,
Leslie Zhai”