[LLVMdev] Fortran and LLVM

[Michael McCracken]

On 11/8/06, Warren Armstrong <warren.armstrong at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking into using LLVM to do some optimisations of
> Fortran code.  As part of this, I've been trying to build
> the frontend with f95 support.  At the moment, I'm trying
> to resolve undefined symbol problems for code defined in
> c-common.c + elsewhere - I'm taking the temporary approach
> of copy-pasting it into a new file, and linking that in.  I have no
> idea if it will work, but you can't just link c-common.o in, because then
> you get multiple definitions of some symbols.
>
> However, judging from past threads on here, it seems that getting
> gfortran support will require a lot of work.  I've also seen
> people who use LLVM and Fortran to compile the SPEC FP benchmarks -
> the NAG compiler has been mentioned in this context.  I have two
> questions here:
>
> 1. I know someone previously tried to get gfortran working - did their
> changes make it into the SVN mainline?

Hi Warren, I think here you're referring to me. Some of my changes did
make it into the mainline, to the extent that you can produce an f95
binary that will compile correct LLVM code for some very small set of
toy fortran programs, but it chokes on real code.

The reason I stopped working on it is that the version of gfortran
that is on the LLVM branch is buggy and the latest version is rather
different, and the effort required to reconcile the changes in either
direction was too much to consider seriously.

I'd still like to get gfortran+LLVM working, but at least for my part,
I'm waiting until the LLVM-gcc4 tree is updated to a more current gcc,
with a more stable gfortran to start from.

-mike

> 2. How do you go about hooking LLVM into the NAG compiler?  Does
> it emit an IR that LLVM recognises?

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Michael McCracken
UCSD CSE PhD Candidate
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