ARM first & default LDC

[Iain Buclaw]

On Tuesday, 15 December 2020 at 12:04:38 UTC, 9il wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 December 2020 at 10:13:41 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>> I would rather say that ARM is getting more competition in 
>> embedded. Because of the recent sales of ARM, this is enough 
>> to get some people scared. They believe that the business 
>> model of ARM is going away or they will refocus. Regardless if 
>> this is true or not some are looking at alternatives and that 
>> might be RISC V. Also where cost is important RISC V will have 
>> an advantage. The rising star in my opinion is RISC V.
>
> Agreed. And this looks like another one reason to make the LLVM 
> backend default.

As far as I know, only GDC supports RISC-V as a first class 
citizen.  So another reason *not* to make LLVM backend the 
default, actually. ;-)