LLVM for Grad Students

Re:LLVM for Grad Students by felixangell on Monday August 03, 2015 @06:11PM (#10000263)

A nice introduction, I'm currently working on a compiler which uses LLVM for code generation... it was very difficult to get into at first. Especially since I was using C (now Go), so I would have to work through 2/3 layers of language and documentation. (Was just C to C++, now it's Go, to C, to C++).

If you're interested in learning more about LLVM, there are some good open source projects that use it. If you aren't using C++, people have also ported the kaleidoscope tutorial project to Haskell, Rust, C, etc... Additionally, a lot of bigger compilers like Rust, and Clang use it - Swift also uses LLVM, and should be open source soon?

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Re:LLVM for Grad Students by kd0amg on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @01:42PM (#10004936)

Working with the OCaml bindings feels similar. A lot of the functions are explained as wrapping some particular function from the C++ code, which is itself only explained in the docs with a link to its source implementation.

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Re:LLVM for Grad Students by slimsag on Monday August 03, 2015 @09:33PM (#10001121)

Because I'm curious, could we have a link to your Go project if it's open-source? :)

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Re:LLVM for Grad Students by andars on Monday August 03, 2015 @11:21PM (#10001464)

https://github.com/ark-lang/ark

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Re:LLVM for Grad Students by felixangell on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @07:30AM (#10002678)

That's the one :)

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