[LLVMdev] interactive llvm interpreter?

[Jon Harrop]

On Thursday 05 March 2009 17:50:31 Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Mattias Holm wrote:
> > Does any interactive llvm interpreter exist or is there one being
> > developed at the moment? What I am talking about is something like LLI
> > but interactive so that it is possible to step through LLVM code
> > statement by statement and inspect the results of various expressions.
> > This would for example greatly simplify debugging of compiler passes.
>
> I don't know of anything like that.  One implementation approach would
> be to insert debug information into a .ll file based on the location
> information of the .ll file itself.  That would allow you to compile
> the code normally and step through "the .ll file" in GDB.

I think a walkthrough of the source, like the Kaleidoscope tutorials, would 
also be extremely valuable.

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