[LLVMdev] Newbie questions

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Requoting myself:
>
>> I.e., my question is the more general one:
>> how do optimizations that are specific to the front-end language get
>> done? How does the front-end "secret knowledge" get passed through
>> somehow so it can be used for optimization purposes?

The general answer is: language specific intrinsics or recognized run-time 
API functions.

-Chris

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