John,

I'm am confused by your objections. Clang already contains a large
amount of code for satisfying target ABIs. For example, Clang's
implementation of the AMD64 standard is over 1000 lines.

PNaCl is no different. We have a specific ABI that must be satisfied
in order to generate compatible code. Compared to AMD64, the code
needed to satisfy ours is trivial.

I have not seen any proposed alternatives to our current method that
would satisfy all our requirements. While our ABI is not 100%
finalized, until this patch is committed, we can't do any external
testing with Clang. (unless we create our own branch, which we'd
rather not)

- David


On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:44 PM, John McCall <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:56 PM, David Meyer wrote:
>> I don't understand your last comment. Please clarify?
>
>
> The discussion about how best to accomplish PNaCl's goals here is a necessary 
> part of the technical review of this patch.  Please be patient;  don't expect 
> the patch to be approved/committed until we agree that this is the right 
> technical approach.
>
> John.
>

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