[LLVMdev] Introduction.

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Brian Makin wrote:
> I've been reading through the documentation for llvm
> and am quite interested in helping.  I am an
> experience c and c++ programmer but a bit rusty on the
> compilers.

Great, welcome to the community!

> I'm currently reading through the ideas for projects.
> It looks as through llvm may be very deep in some
> optimization (IPA) but not as strong in others.  Are
> there some textbook passes which I could start with?

The open projects list (http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/OpenProjects.html) is one 
good source, another is to look through the bugzilla database.  There are 
probably some open bugs that are reasonable straight-forward to address. 
Finally, the best way is to try using LLVM for something, and if it 
doesn't work as well as it should in some way, figure out how to improve 
it! :)  This is a good place to discuss problems you hit and possible 
solutions.

Welcome again,

-Chris

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