[LLVMdev] asmwriting times (was Re: LLVMContext: Suggestions for API Changes)

[Jim Grosbach]

On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Ivo wrote:

> On Monday 24 August 2009 23:27, Albert Graef wrote:
>> Thank you also for the hint about bitcode reading/writing. I'm  
>> aware of
>> this, but I actually prefer the .ll output because it's human- 
>> readable,
>> which is great for debugging purposes. I might add a bitcode writer  
>> some
>> time, but it's not a high priority for me right now.
>
> Isn't there a tool to turn bitcode into human readable text? I have  
> been
> reading about the internals of LLVM lately (I'm planning on making a  
> new
> backend) and the whole infrastructure reminds me a lot of the  
> Amsterdam
> Compiler Kit (ACK). They had a program to turn binary EM code into  
> ASCII,
> making it easy to dump the output to |more or less during debugging.
>

There's the llvm disassembler (llvm-dis), which works nicely. Albert,  
would that work for you? Might be a way to get a bit more performance  
with a mild convenience cost (needing to run the disassembler in order  
to examine IR) during debugging.

-Jim