RISC-V port

[Joakim]

On Thursday, 17 May 2018 at 18:05:37 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 May 2018 at 17:45:24 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
>> Are you using LLVM trunk? RISC-V appears to be under active 
>> development:
>> http://www.lowrisc.org/blog/2017/09/moving-risc-v-llvm-forwards/
>> http://www.lowrisc.org/llvm/status/
>
> Yes and no. I used to use the lowRISC patches, since the trunk 
> version used to be severely behind. But there were some bugs in 
> the patched backend that were preventing further progress. With 
> the latest merges the trunk now seems more usable (more 
> complete, and the bugs exhibited by the patches seem to no 
> longer be there) so I'm using that.
>
> In any case, the author is the same (Alex Bradbury). I've been 
> in contact with him, but he goes several months without 
> replying, due to competing priorities and lack of funding.
>
> I guess I could ask for help in the llvm-dev mailing list. I 
> thought people here might be more motivated to help, given the 
> focus on D support.

I doubt any of us had to do much with exception-handling in a 
backend, it's just one of those features we get from llvm for 
free. Since we don't develop backends, you're better off asking 
the llvm guys, who do.