[LLVMdev] Newbie Enquiry

[Misha Brukman]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:13:36AM +1200, Peter Ashford wrote:
> I've just started reading about LLVM and I just wanted to make sure
> that it can do what I was hoping it could do.  Am I correct in
> assuming that I could use LLVM as a backend for a compiler, emiting
> LLVM byte codes which could either be natively compiled (Sparc and
> x86) or byte code interpretted / JITed??

That is correct.

You can write your own front-end or use our C/C++ front end to emit LLVM
bytecode, and then our tools (llc, static compiler, or lli,
interpreter/jit) can generate native code from the LLVM.

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