[LLVMdev] The target independence of IR

[JF Bastien]

You may want to read this discussion:

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2013-June/063010.html


And look at how PNaCl declares its own target.

There are a few more references here:

https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/reference/pnacl-bitcode-abi


On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Kuperstein, Michael M <
michael.m.kuperstein at intel.com> wrote:

>  Hi Hao,
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> You are right, the IR is not “target independent” in the strict sense.
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> There’s a fairly old post that explains this (amongst other things) in
> detail:
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> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/043719.html
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> x86_fp80 is just one example of this.
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> It is kind-of-possible to restrict LLVM IR to be
> sort-of-target-independent (look up Portable Native Client and SPIR for
> details), but an arbitrary IR file generated by a front-end that had target
> X in mind is not guaranteed to work as you’d expect if you use backend Y.
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> Michael
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> *From:* llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Hao Wang
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 09, 2014 09:33
> *To:* llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> *Subject:* [LLVMdev] The target independence of IR
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> Hi,
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> Can anyone help me understand that LLVM IR has "target independence" ?
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> 1. When we talk about "target", we mean something like Instruction Set
> Architecture ?
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> 2. The front-end may generate IR code such as x86_fp80, so the IR is
> actually not fully target-independent? It contains information about the
> target, and the front-end should also be aware of this?
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> Thank you!
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> Hao
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