[LLVMdev] MSIL codegen

[Nicolas Geoffray]

Hi Artur,

Artur Pietrek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I work in Kalray (Montbonnot, France) and I'm PhD student at Universite 
> Joseph Fourier in Grenoble.
> We want to use LLVM framework for MSIL code generation, which is part of 
> my thesis.
> Currently I'm still reading LLVM's documentation and I've started 
> completing the MSIL backend for running on Mono.
>
>   

What's the rationale for generating MSIL in your case? Is it to use the 
.Net libraries or to leverage execution of your programs on a .Net VM? 
In both cases, have you looked at VMKit? (http://vmkit.llvm.org) Is 
there a reason why it would not fill your needs?

(Not that I want you to consider improving VMKit for your gsoc, but I'm 
just wondering why do you want to generate MSIL if it's to run it on Mono).

Thanks!
Nicolas