[LLVMdev] Suggestion for VM porting to LLVM

[someguy]

Good luck.
Be sure to document anything you think might be useful on the wiki!

http://wiki.llvm.org

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Gabriele Farina <gabriele at sephiroth.it>wrote:

> Well, you are right :)
> In fact I've started porting the VM in the spare time and it is working
> fine. I'm still having some issues to understand the garbage collector, but
> I'll delve more into it as soon as the other features will be complete
>
> Gabriele
>
> Il giorno 07/apr/09, alle ore 08:22, someguy ha scritto:
>
> Gabrielle,
> The way I see it, its pretty much the same thing... Conversion to LLVM-IR
> of a custom bytecode is the same as conversion to LLVM-IR of a custom
> language.
>
> The syntax of the 'custom language' just happens to be binary bytecode.
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Gabriele Farina <gabriele at sephiroth.it>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Isn't it intended to explain how to build a compiler for a custom
>> language that targets LLVM-IR ? Is it useful also to understand how to
>> build a VM that is meant to execute custom bytecode (converting it to
>> LLVM-IR previously) ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gabriele
>>
>> Il giorno 05/apr/09, alle ore 11:36, Anton Korobeynikov ha scritto:
>>
>> > Hello, Gabriele
>> >
>> >> thanks for the suggestion. Do you know if there are any articles
>> >> around that explains how to use LLVM to build a VM that should work
>> >> like mine ?
>> >> I've read something around (mostly source code) but a good article/
>> >> doc
>> >> will be perfect
>> > Have you read the 'Kaleidoscope' tutorial?
>> >
>> > --
>> > With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
>> > Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State
>> > University
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