On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:34 PM, Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net> wrote:
> On 2018-03-15 07:25 PM, Marek Olšák wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:19 PM, Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net > > <mailto:mic...@daenzer.net>> wrote: > > > > On 2018-03-15 06:01 PM, Marek Olšák wrote: > > > > > > pick a3ac60e ac: move address space definitions to common code > > > pick 572d46d ac: Use the renumbered const address space for LLVM 7. > > > # Both are convenient for AMD devs testing 18.0 with LLVM master. > The > > > latter depends on the former. > > > > It's not realistic to keep the 18.0 branch working with LLVM SVN > trunk > > in the long term, I'd suggest not even bothering. > > > > > > It's as realistic as keeping master working. Since LLVM 7 will be frozen > > in 5 months, it's very realistic that this or a future point release of > > 18.0 will work with LLVM 7 forever. > > Even if somebody takes care of backporting all needed changes (and this > doesn't become too expensive due to the code diverging between master > and 18.0) and none are missed, there's a good chance it won't work at > any given time, due to the delay between the changes landing in master > and 18.0. > master might not work at any given time either. You are basically admitting that supporting LLVM 7 in 18.0 is the same as master except for the small delay, which confirms what I said. :) Marek
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