[LLVMdev] C++ to C?

[Dale Johannesen]

On Oct 11, 2008, at 12:49 AM, Duncan Sands wrote:

> On Friday 10 October 2008 20:29:49 Michael wrote:
>> What command and options should be used to convert C++ to C?
>
> Try this:
>
> llvm-gcc -c -O3 -emit-llvm file.cpp -o - | llc -march=c -o -
>
> It should spray C code to standard out.

Bear in mind that if you use features from the C++ library, you are  
still going to need a C++ library.
llvm does not try to translate iostream into stdio calls or anything  
like that.