[LLVMdev] languages, semantic trees, LLVM interfaces

[Vikram S. Adve]

> VSA> For OCAML, for example, the front-end is quite sophisticated
> VSA> and complex and the LLVM representation would not be suitable for
> VSA> supporting all the checking and translation.
> 
> But I have just meant ocamlyacc, i.e. ocaml clone of the yacc.
> And here my question was: what kind of interface is expected to use
> from within ocml, CommonLisp implementations, Haskel and other nice
> language implementations? What is the expected way of interfacing
> LLVM for those non-C language implementations? shared libraries with
> plain C-interface or what?


Valery,

This is a good question and I don't think we have a good answer yet.  We
are already facing this issue for JVM and OCAML front-ends which we hope
to develop in the next few months.  If we have a good solution, we'll
definitely let this list know.

--Vikram

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