[LLVMdev] Could LLVM help me?

[Tanya Lattner]

>     I'm a newbie of LLVM. I want to make sure that my way is correct.
> Plz tell me...
> we design a new processor with a new arch. we wanna get a compiler as
> fast as possible. The target code of the new compiler  is machine
> code.
>  So, is it I just to create a whole new backend for our new processor,
> right? And then????

Yes. LLVM would be great for your project. Please check out the document
on how to write a backend.
http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html

-Tanya