[LLVMdev] Thinking about "whacky" backends

[Samuel Crow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: David A. Greene <greened at obbligato.org>
> To: Samuel Crow <samuraileumas at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Nate Fries <nfries88 at yahoo.com>; LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Friday, June 3, 2011 4:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Thinking about "whacky" backends
> 
> Samuel Crow <samuraileumas at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>>  Here's some of what it would take to make portable bitcodes in C or 
> LLVM Assembly:
> 
> A look at the work done on ANDF in the 90's may be helpful.  I've only
> skimmed it but there's been some deep thinking about stuff like this.
> 
>                              -Dave
>

Thanks Dave,

A little bit of Google reveals a wikipedia article:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Neutral_Distribution_Format that links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TenDRA_Distribution_Format which has its specification listed at http://docs.tendra.org/reference/xhtml/guide which speaks in lofty abstract language terms and doesn't appear to be a binary representation of code.  I'm not sure if any of this actually helps us considering that LLVM already has mechanisms for most of these functions.

Here we go again,

--Sam