[LLVMdev] JVM Backend

Anton Korobeynikov anton at korobeynikov.info
Wed Nov 25 23:08:18 PST 2009


Hello, David

> Additional patch attached, is this suitable?
Looks good, thanks. What's about arithmetics?

>> The current big question is: how you're planning to deal with
>> arbitrary precision stuff which might come from LLVM IR.
> I should be able to implement that. Would arbitrary precision support
> be required for the initial commit of the backend?
I really don't think so. But you should aware, that you can easy
obtain, say, i33 from C bitfields-heavy code, or i256 due to LLVM
optimizers.

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University



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