LLVM 7 is the latest LLVM version and LLVM 8 is not too far away. This we should drop any LLVM 6 support to simplify the code.
Specifically, we need to do the following:
Comment from a user: "Ubuntu 18.04 LTS provides LLVM 6.0 packages, which might be a motivation to keep supporting this version until the next Ubuntu LTS. At least we currently plan to do so in pocl"
Hi!
I want to start looking into this. I'm ramping up so I'm just getting to know the project.
Anyone else was looking into this? Is this OK that I move on?
I see above the comment from a user, please tell me if there are other issues like this that should be considered.
@mortzur go for it!
I checked and we are fine with this deprecation (we already use LLVM 7 under both Linux and Windows). Please note that the more Glow will be used in products released to customers, the more problematic/controversial such deprecation will be.
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I checked and we are fine with this deprecation (we already use LLVM 7 under both Linux and Windows). Please note that the more Glow will be used in products released to customers, the more problematic/controversial such deprecation will be.