[LLVMdev] Wiki?

Gordon Henriksen gordonhenriksen at me.com
Wed Mar 11 06:56:32 PDT 2009


Reid Spencer had set one up at one point, but it never got much  
traction. It seems to be broken at the moment:

http://wiki.llvm.org/

On 2009-03-11, at 02:22, 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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