[LLVMdev] 2.2 garbage collector questions

Jon Harrop jon at ffconsultancy.com
Tue Feb 5 12:44:07 PST 2008


On Tuesday 05 February 2008 17:18:28 Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Jon Harrop wrote:
> > If you are familiar with functional programming and, in particular, its
> > benefits in the context of compiler work then you might like to use
> > Gordon's OCaml bindings to LLVM that are bundled with LLVM. They are very
> > easy to use and will make subsequent work vastly easier than trying to
> > write everything in C++.
>
> Or, indeed, the Haskell bindings I've been working on with Lennart
> Augustsson.  They're both safer and easier to use than the OCaml
> bindings :-)

Can you elaborate on this?

We had a brief discussion here about making safer OCaml bindings by exploiting 
static type systems but nothing became of it (AFAIK).

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