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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">There’s been a lot of code changes from LLVM 3.3 to LLVM 6.0, so expecting to just compile vmkit with a newer version of LLVM is not going to work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Translation of pure JVM bytecode to LLVM itself is not particularly challenging. You do need a garbage collector, which LLVM does not provide, but that does not
make the conversion that much harder. The difficult part is that any effective project requires an implementation of several Java classes that are very closely tied to implementation details (particularly things like java.lang.Class or java.lang.String). The
most obvious source of the Java library (OpenJDK) essentially requires you to implement the full and complex dynamic class loading interfaces before you can even get a simple hello world application running.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">VMKit did spend a lot of effort in being able to use the OpenJDK’s implementation of the Java library, so while it may be a substantial amount of effort to get
VMKit to a newer version of LLVM (or OpenJDK, for that matter), it is probably easier to do that instead of writing your own JVM-to-LLVM converter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> llvm-dev [mailto:llvm-dev-bounces@lists.llvm.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ratnesh Tiwari via llvm-dev<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 20, 2018 7:20<br>
<b>To:</b> llvm-dev <llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [llvm-dev] Using VMKit to convert Java Bytecode to LLVM IR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">I wanted to use VMKit project to convert Java Bytecode to LLVM IR bitcode. But I do not know how to start, since I came to know that VMkit is written for llvm -3.3 version, but I
want it for latest LLVM version 6.0.1. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">So, could you please suggest me, whether I have to write it whole project from scratch to meet my requirement of latest llvm version, or can use existing project by building it. Since,
I think existing VMKit project which is unmaintained might have a lot of bug to meet latest llvm version.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Also tell me if I have to write it from scratch to convert from Java Bytecode to LLVM IR, what is the basic code flow approach ,how to start and related guidance. Please help me by
suggesting above queries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Thanks & Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Ratnesh Tiwari<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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