[LLVMdev] MSIL backend

[Jeff Cohen]

Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Jeff Cohen wrote:
>> The problem is worse than I thought.
>>
>> MSIL, and .NET in general, defines a specific object model.  This object
>> model is explicitly part of MSIL semantics.  LLVM is at a lower level;
>> it does not have an object model.  To do a virtual call, LLVM
>> instructions must be generated to load a function pointer from a vtable
>
> Unlike Java, MSIL support 'unsafe' operations, which include fully 
> general pointer arithmetic, casting, etc.  In this mode, you don't 
> need to use its support for object models at all,
>
> -Chris

Yes, but what's the point of generating MSIL that cannot use libraries 
for the .NET platform?

Why not just generate native code in the first place?