[jevinskie]

I wonder how this will affect Mono/Xamarian, given that LLILC has commited to providing an AoT compiler. It would nice to see a CLR frontend for LLVM that cooperates more closely with LLVM upstream. Mono's fork of LLVM is about a 3.4k line diff (mostly EH additions, few -/+ modifications) but they don't seem to actively try to upstream much.

Edit: I gave up trying to build a Linux-x86_64 to Android-ARM cross-compiled Mono a year ago. The configure script didn't even think of handling bitness differences between host and target... The commerical Xamarian toolchain for AoT iOS compilation seems more mature than what is released in Mono.

[mjsabby]

LLILC is absolutely interested in upstreaming and in fact, at least one big change (prelim COFF support for MCJIT) is already upstreamed (http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-...) in addition to a few smaller ones.

Diffing upstream with http://github.com/Microsoft/llvm will let you track what Microsoft is currently doing in its repo.

[jevinskie]

I'm elated to hear that. I'm eager to browse the repo tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback! =)