[LLVMdev] Re: Bytecode Format

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Misha Brukman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:25:23AM -0800, Robert Mykland wrote:
> > I'm the guy who is working on the LLVM bytecode documentation. The
> > document I have at present just supports the bytecodes my code
> > generator processes, though, which is far from all of them. As I get
> > farther along with my code generator I expect I'll get to the point
> > where everything kind of fits together for me and I can finish it up.
> > In the meantime, people are welcome to what I have so far.
>
> If you wish, we can add it as a work-in-progress now so that others can
> at least have a starting point with the bytecode reader, and you can
> send us patches as you go along, and we'll update them in CVS and on the
> web.

This would also be useful because I have recently made several (hopefully
the last for a long time) minor changes to the bytecode to make them a bit
smaller (another 20% or so for large programs).  If your document was in
CVS, I could update it as I made changes. :)

-Chris

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