[LLVMdev] ocaml binding question

Jon Harrop jon at ffconsultancy.com
Wed Dec 12 05:16:09 PST 2007


On Monday 10 December 2007 23:52, Gordon Henriksen wrote:
> On 2007-12-10, at 18:28, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > Incidentally, should more OCaml stuff beyond the bindings be part of
> > LLVM or would it be better to fork them into a separate project
>
> Can you be more specific than "stuff"?

I'm thinking of a library that compiles an AST represented by an OCaml data 
structure into the appropriate calls to LLVM. Ultimately, with support for 
exceptions and a run-time.

> > and alleviate some stress from Chris et al? Might be easier if a
> > community want to tinker with ideas, e.g. for a higher-level
> > interface.
>
> Chris doesn't have Ocaml installed, AFAIK, so I don't know how much of
> a concern that is. ;) I'd probably be the first line of review.

Wow, how does he autogenerate that C++ code without OCaml? ;-)

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