[LLVMdev] How to write a new backend?

[Al Stone]

Which architecture/platform are you targeting?  You
might be able to pick up some assistants :).

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 04:41, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm considering a possibility of writing an llvm backend for my research uses. 
> Unfortunately, I can't find much information on how do to it. I more or less 
> understood now the C backend is implemented, but for real backend I'd need at 
> least register allocation. I beleive there's already register allocator in 
> LLVM and I would like to reuse it if possible. 
> 
> The question is how? The REAME.txt in x86 directory does not tell that, and I 
> see no other information.
> 
> In general, what's the best way to write a backend?
> 
> TIA,
> Volodya
> 
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al
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