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<span>I spent the last two years updating the Compiler Design <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">
course<span> </span></span>at Johns Hopkins to include LLVM which required me to learn “everything” about the LLVM Project. There are several difficult steps that I could not overcome in two years of studying LLVM. </span></div>
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<div>I am writing to request help from the community to fill in these missing points which basically involve using clang to create a compiler for an imperative C like language (for teaching students how to do this). It is easy to create a scanner and a parser
using public domain tools, but when I reached the codegen to LLVM’s IR, I quickly ran out of good guidance. The biggest help came from the LLVM Tutorials, but they are a little shallow and a little hard to follow at times due to what appears to be generations
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Are there LLVM based tools available to make the transition from AST to IR, and where do I find them?</span><br>
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<span>Allyn Shell</span></div>
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