[LLVMdev] Newbie Enquiry

[Peter Ashford]

Reid Spencer wrote:

>Yes, that's right!
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>In fact, shortly the process of doing that will get easier with the
>llvmc (compiler driver) tool that I'm working on. You write your
>compiler to generate either bytecode or LLVM assembly and a
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Does that mean the front end must decide between emiting bytecode for 
interpretting/JITing and LLVM assembly for native compilation?  You 
can't emit the one kind of output for either end target (interpretted 
bytecode or native compilation)?

>configuration file. The rest of it (optimization, linking, codegen) can
>be done with existing LLVM tools. If you later want to include those
>features in your compiler, you can (via the C++ interface) and just
>reconfigure your compiler's configuration file.
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>Welcome to LLVM, Peter!
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Thanks :o)