[LLVMdev] Newbie question on front-end and code compaction

[Erick Tryzelaar]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Bernardo Elayda <belayda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm still a newbie to LLVM, so I'm looking for guidance that will tell me
> the right docs to read.
>
> I'm interested in working on 2 different things.  I'm interested on adding a
> new front end for a functional language such as Lisp.  I'm also interested
> in helping out with compaction(making code with a small footprint).  What
> are the right docs for me to start reading and reviewing?

I'd start with the kaleidoscope tutorials, they taught me a lot about llvm:

http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/