[LLVMdev] Creating a tablegen backend

[Villmow, Micah]

Durward,
 Why not use LLVM-IR as your 'generic assembly'? 

Micah

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> On Behalf Of Durward McDonell
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:02 PM
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> Subject: [LLVMdev] Creating a tablegen backend
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I would like to create a new backend for tablegen that produces code in
> an generic assembly language (not for a real processor).  The
> documentation
> page for this says "ToDo", but I think what I want to do is something
> similar
> to CodeGenDAGPatterns::ParseInstructions() in CodeGenDAGPatterns.cpp.
> Is this even vaguely correct?  Any pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> I'm specifically interested in translating X86 into this other
> language, but
> getting other processors for free in the process would be great.
> 
> --
> Durward McDonell
> durward.mcdonell at gmail.com
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