[LLVMdev] [LLVM][g++] A helping hand

Török Edwin edwintorok at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 08:50:57 PST 2009


On 2009-01-30 18:33, Kasra wrote:
> --- On Fri, 1/30/09, Török Edwin <edwintorok at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Török Edwin <edwintorok at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] [LLVM][g++] A helping hand
>> To: kasra_n500 at yahoo.com, "LLVM Developers Mailing List" <llvmdev at cs.uiuc..edu>
>> Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 8:29 AM
>> On 2009-01-30 18:19, Kasra wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I was looking into using LLVM with C++. Currently
>>>       
>> there is almost no C++ support (C support only). 
>>     
>>>   
>>>       
>> LLVM is written in C++,  has a C++ API, and llvm-gcc
>> frontend can
>> compile C++ programs.
>> What exactly is the C++ support you are missing?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --Edwin
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> I was a little ambiguous. I know LLVM is in C++. By support I meant compilation of C++ source code into LLVM IR.
> I am right to assume 

What do you base your assumption on?

> this feature is not fully implemented right? 

LLVM (with llvm-g++) is able to compile itself. See
http://llvm.org/cmds/llvmgxx.html
It is Clang that doesn't have full C++ support yet, are you sure you
aren't confusing the two?

Best regards,
--Edwin



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