[LLVMdev] help with llvm.

[Brian Gaeke]

Getting the corner cases right in LLVM has been a nontrivial task. 
Given that, I'm wondering if you've considered using LLVM itself? You 
could certainly take LLVM and pare it down to just the bare essentials, 
for instance.

It would help to know what you're intending to do with this prospective 
compiler you describe.

-Brian

On Oct 5, 2004, at 2:42 AM, Abhijit Ray wrote:

> I am interested in implementing a compiler very much like llvm but
> with very very modest goals.
> I just want to have a intermediate format(machine independent)  which
> can be used as input/output by different passes.( much like the
> bytecode of llvm).
>
> The only thing is I want it to be much simpler compared LLVM, say only
> a very few basic optimizations. Other optimizations could be written
> and implemented as plug and play but not part of the core compiler.
>
> profiling should be helpful but not a necessity.
>
> now to what help I need ..
> I would appreciate comments and pitfalls any implementor faced while
> doing similar exercise.
>
> wonder if the LLVM authors maintained some sort of logs of what they
> did first and what they implemented last and what problems they faced.
>
> pointers to helpful urls is also welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Abhijit Ray
>
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