From 8e9f2ceea37c38c0394af64355966388834a9b86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Lattner
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:34:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Suggest looking at the SPARC backend. How weird is that?? :)
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@27957 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html b/docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html
index c487bc63571..8826ee7706b 100644
--- a/docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html
+++ b/docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html
@@ -61,8 +61,9 @@ convert the LLVM representation to machine assembly code or other languages.
-
In general, you want to follow the format of X86 or PowerPC (in
-lib/Target).
+
In general, you want to follow the format of SPARC, X86 or PowerPC (in
+lib/Target). SPARC is the simplest backend, and is RISC, so if
+you're working on a RISC target, it is a good one to start with.
To create a static compiler (one that emits text assembly), you need to
implement the following: