[cfe-dev] Advice for front-end design?

Joachim Durchholz via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Sep 18 23:13:45 PDT 2015


Am 19.09.2015 um 07:21 schrieb Sean Silva via cfe-dev:
> See http://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/classllvm_1_1SourceMgr.html
> We use it in the IR reader, TableGen, FileCheck, LLD's linker scripts, the
> YAML parser, and MC's asm parser, among other places (I'm sure I've missed
> something that uses it).

Heh. That's quite some diversity. Anything that can handle YAML should 
be flexible enough to apply for my use case, an indent-based grammar.

> Together with MemoryBuffer::getFileOrSTDIN like Russell points out, that
> should cover the things you mentioned.

I guess I'll scour Russell's reading list whenever I need a break from 
SourceMgr :-)

Regards,
Jo



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