[LLVMdev] LLVM

Tue Feb 24 06:51:01 PST 2004

Sounds like a good idea. I will talk to you later regarding 
the smaller llvm for project purposes.
--- Jingling

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:13:07AM -0600, Vikram S. Adve wrote:
> Jingling,
> 
> I faced the same issue in using LLVM for an introductory compiler course
> this semester.  The way I am (optimistically) addressing it is that I have
> given the students a tarball of LLVM containing most of LLVM but very few
> optimizations.  In particular, we've only given them a few essential
> transformations that the front-end or lli need, and any transformations used
> by those transformations.  Key project ideas like LICM, GCSE, ADCE, etc. are
> left out.  I've also told them *not* to download LLVM from the web site or
> CVS, and there I have to trust them not to do it.
> 
> We can give you the same tarball if you're interested.
> 
> My long-term goal is to make such an LLVM version available together with a
> few predefined course projects, including front-end and back-end projects.
> That will take time, though.
> 
> --Vikram
> http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: llvmdev-admin at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-admin at cs.uiuc.edu]On
> > Behalf Of Jingling Xue
> > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 9:51 PM
> > To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] LLVM
> >
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> > Thanks for the quick input. The harder the LLVM is,
> > the harder it is for me to teach the course:-)
> > Too many optimisations have been added, meaning
> > I have to design many new projects.
> >
> > --- Jingling
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:41:13PM -0600, Chris Lattner wrote:
> > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Jingling Xue wrote:
> > >
> > > > I understand that LLVM is now available in the public domain.
> > >
> > > Yes it is.  It can be downloaded from the LLVM releases page here:
> > > http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/
> > >
> > > > I need to decide which compiler system I will use for my advanced
> > > > compiler course this year.
> > >
> > > The current release is 1.1.  We are tentatively planning to release 1.2
> > > sometime in the next month, which will include some
> > improvements over 1.1.
> > > A list of the new features and changes so far can be found in the "1.2"
> > > release notes here:  http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
> > >
> > > So which release to use depends on your timeline.  If they will need to
> > > start before ~Mar 20, then 1.1 makes sense.  If they will start
> > after that
> > > time, they can use 1.2 (which will be strictly better than 1.1).  If you
> > > decide that you want some "1.2" feature before the 1.2 release, such as
> > > the profiling infrastructure, you can always choose to work out of CVS.
> > > CVS is pretty stable most of the time.
> > >
> > > > I assume many more optimisations have been added to the system.
> > >
> > > Yup, there have been a lot of new developments.  :)
> > >
> > > > Many students enjoyed working with your llvm last year.
> > >
> > > Great!  BTW, if any of them have any reports that they would like to
> > > contribute to the "Projects built with LLVM" page, please have them send
> > > them to me.  We'd like to showcase their hard work if they are
> > willing to
> > > share. :)  http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/ProjectsWithLLVM/
> > >
> > > > Thanks for the input.
> > >
> > > No problem, let me know if you still have questions.
> > >
> > > -Chris
> > >
> > >
> > > > ---Jingling
> > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:20:01PM -0600, Chris Lattner wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Reid Spencer wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Attempting to use cvs with LLVM is producing the following:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > bash-2.05b$ cvs status
> > > > > > cvs [status aborted]: connect to
> > > > > > llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu(128.174.245.58):2401 failed:
> > Connection refused
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think this has happened before and the root cause was a
> > stuck xinetd
> > > > > > process on the cvs server.
> > > > >
> > > > > I kicked it, try again :)
> > > > >
> > > > > -Chris
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/
> > > > > http://www.nondot.org/~sabre/Projects/
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> > > -Chris
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