[LLVMdev] Wiki?

Anthony Danalis adanalis at eecs.utk.edu
Wed Mar 11 05:16:16 PDT 2009


I agree too.  I'm working on an analysis pass and I could be adding  
info to a wiki as I discover how to do things.

Anthony

On Mar 11, 2009, at 4:22 AM, someguy wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm pretty new to LLVM and am slowly learning the code-base and
> architecture, mostly as a result of my efforts to implement a target
> backend.
>
> There are a number of resources (read: documents) available which deal
> with some parts of backend development (and LLVM development in
> general), but sadly they are not at all comprehensive.
>
> I'd like to propose that a wiki be made available so that people who
> work out how to do stuff can document their findings. I'd like to see
> sections devoted to frontend, backend and misc. pass implementation,
> with both explanations of how LLVM works under the hood, and 'recipes'
> for common tasks/issues.
>
> For example, I would be more than happy to write up a set of howtos
> for the various questions and tasks I've encountered during my backend
> development, ranging from a 'What's the bare minimum?' to more complex
> issues like 'Implementing conditional branching' and 'calling
> conventions', 'emitting binary (object) code' etc.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> someguy
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