[M3devel] "C-generating backend progress report, that nobody asked for" :)

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Sun Sep 9 16:39:43 CEST 2012


On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:32:38AM +0200, Dragiša Durić wrote:
> Extremelly Good Thing.
> 
> Cleaning up of whole system needed to generate new backend also enables other people to do things in future.
> 
> I hope somebody will take on LLVM :).

LLVM is very much a slightly lower-level C.  It even has a 
declaration-before-use rules.  Some of them even apply to the methods 
for parse-tree construction (though it's supposed to be random access).  
I suspect the best way to take on LLVM will be to start from Jay's C 
generator.

-- hendrik



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