[LLVMdev] Any idea on translate x86 assembly to LLVM IR?

[Holger Schurig]

> I'am now considering converting x86 machine assembly into LLVM
> IR, does anyone know about any existing project or resource
> related to this area? Any difficulities or any ideas on this?

There is a idea floating around that LLVM and QEMU could be 
married. QEMU has sort-of-a-disassembler, where they generate 
little pieces of code and later let that code execute (it's 
actually a bit different, but hey, use the source). The idea was 
to replace that part with an LLVM IR generation. Then you can 
use standard LLVM optimization passes on this and/or run this 
code via JIT.

Anyway, the disassembler-part of QEMU is easy to rip out, for me 
it was easier than, say, the libbfd based disassemblers, which 
are highly optimized to produce human readable strings.