[LLVMdev] Creating an LLVM backend for a very small stack machine

[Chris Lattner]

On Feb 22, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
>
> I would love to see a Kalescope-like tutorial that goes step-by-step  
> through
> making a backend. At the very least, I'll be documenting my  
> adventure, so
> maybe once I know what I'm doing I can turn it into a tutorial.

Have you seen:
http://llvm.org/docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html

If you're targeting a stack machine, I'd strongly recommend not using  
the llvm register allocators and just run you own custom stackifier  
pass instead.

-Chris