[LLVMdev] Third party integration

[Reid Spencer]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:06 -0400, Kyle Lahnakoski wrote:
> I have only just begun looking through the docs for LLVM.  I have read
> through some of the PP presentations to get an idea of the modularity of
> LLVM.
> 
> May someone be so kind to point me to some documentation on how to
> communicate with the LLVM modules (specifically the optimizer) from some
> third party piece of software (my compiler)?
> 
> I am hoping there is a file format, or some serialization, that LLVM
> modules can read and write.  I am looking at the v1.9 tar file: are the
> *.ll files this serialization?  If so, then I guess I am looking for a
> doc with a high level grammar specification.

Binary Format: Bytecode: http://llvm.org/docs/BytecodeFormat.html
Text Format: Assembly: http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html

I suggest that you read http://llvm.org/docs/ (the index) to learn more
about what documentation is available. Most of the answers you want are
already covered there.

Reid.

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> Thanks ahead of time.
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