[LLVMdev] cfrontend building

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Sun Aug 14 18:11:30 PDT 2005


On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Stephan Wienczny wrote:
>> It's a pretty significant job.  You could try to merging in new bits from
>> GCC mainline, but it's a nasty job: debugging failures requires pretty
>> strong understanding of how GCC works.  Easier would be to patch the
>> llvm-gcc X86 configuration stuff to accept and ignore that switch.
>
> I looked at those files. Where did you integrate LLVM into GCC? Did you change
> the gimplifier to produce LLVM code or make LLVM a GCC backend?

No.  The llvm-gcc front-end predates GIMPLE.  In fact, it is a pre-3.4 
snapshot.

-Chris

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