[LLVMdev] LLVM and GMP

[Paulo Matias]

someguy wrote:
> Oh. One more thing:
>
> Paulo, while your working out how to do what Chris said (making usage
> of bigints into library calls), wouldn't it just warm your heart to
> document the process on the wiki?
>
> </wiki pimping>
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:16 AM, someguy
> <just.s0m3.guy+llvmdev at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Oh. I see. That way the bigints don't need a representation in llvm IR... neat.
>>
>> Sorry for the misdirecton!
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:20 PM, someguy wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I could be wrong, but I think that you may need to add a 'big-integer'
>>>> intrinsic type to llvm.
>>>>         
>>> No, please don't.  GMP is just another library like libc, your front-
>>> end should just generate calls into it like any other library.  This
>>> is similar to how we handle threading and many other "language
>>> features".
>>>
>>> -Chris
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Hello
First of all, thanks for your answers.
I've been investigating on how to generate the calls to GMP, and how to 
make the IRBuilder generate the IR containing them but, so far, I found 
nothing about that. I read the documentation on LLVM, but I don't know 
how to do it yet. Some help would be a blessing, since I'm a bit lost.

About documenting the process in the wiki, it seems a very good idea, so 
anyone in the future, who has the same problem can easily solve it. But 
first I need to find the solution myself! :-)

Thanks in advance
Paulo Matias