On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 13:32:52 UTC, David Nadlinger
wrote:
On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 11:39:28 UTC, Sönke Ludwig
wrote:
Am 15.09.2013 08:54, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
But I could swear I've seen a "LLVM IR -> C" before...
I'm pretty sure that IR -> C just outputs C code that feeds
LLVM with the original IR and not an equivalent of the IR
itself. So it's usually no more useful than directly compiling
to machine code for the target architecture.
That's the C++ backend you are talking about.
The C backend - which was defunct some time ago, no idea about
its current state - actually generated a C code equivalent of
the IR (with some limitations).
Indeed. A PhD student tried to revive it last year, last updated
earlier this year:
http://www.es.ele.tue.nl/~rjordans/llvm-cbe-patches/
