[LLVMdev] Newbie Enquiry

[Misha Brukman]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:35:02AM +1200, Peter Ashford wrote:
> 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)?

Not at all, there's only one version of LLVM IR, but it can appear in
binary bytecode or textual form (human-readable).  They have a
one-to-one correlation.

There is an assembler (llvm-as) and disassembler (llvm-dis) for
translating between the two formats.

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