[M3devel] LLVM backend?

[Tony Hosking]

I am short of the time needed to make real progress.
I am happy to collaborate even if only in an advisory role.
I have some of the design written down, but other aspects in my head.
For example, dealing with lexically scoped variables for nested functions requires capturing all the "escaping" variables (referenced by inner scope functions) into a properly typed "frame" structure, along with the static link, and whose pointer can be passed as the static link to inner scope functions.

On Mar 28, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu> wrote:

> I was thinking of looking into LLVM more. For selfish reasons -- resume growth, but no matter.
>  
> 1) Tony, are you making progress? Should I wait? Collaberate? Go it alone?
> 2) An LLVM backend would I suspect have the same lack of m3gdb support as a C backend.
> Does that bother people?
> Actually I was just skimming "parse.c"..I don't remember exactly how I decided it is all a stabs-specific hack.
> Though, I do realize 1) typeids are encoded in identifier names, which certainly hurts debugging
> w/o m3gdb 2) types aren't being described as they ought to be.
> 
>  - Jay
> 
> 

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