The low level details of sending text to the terminal are very OS and target specific. It generally requires putting the values into specific registers and triggering an interrupt. The only way to represent this behavior in LLVM IR would by adding new target specific intrinsics that can be converted during instruction selection to the right machine instructions.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Andrew Pennebaker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Can Hello World be written in LLVM assembly without using a C library function like "puts"?</div><br clear="all"><div></div>Cheers,<div><br></div><div>Andrew Pennebaker</div><div><a href="http://www.yellosoft.us" target="_blank">www.yellosoft.us</a></div>
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