[LLVMdev] Calling Conventions Cont'd

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Mon Apr 14 14:51:00 PDT 2008


On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Duncan Sands wrote:
>> If you want to map from a C type/calling convetion to LLVM IR, clang is a
>> good way to go.  It isn't fully up to snuff with all the ABIs out there,
>> but will be doing much better over the next few months.
>
> How about extracting the clang code and turning it into a set of helper
> routines for people who want to be able to generate C compatible function
> signatures?

Fortunately, clang is built as a set of libraries.  This would just be one 
more interface built on top of the asts + llvm code generator.

-Chris

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