[LLVMdev] Re : Source to source translation.

[Carlos Crespo]

Thanks for your answer Matthieu! I will check out TXL as you say. I have
been reading it's documentation and it seems to provide the functionality I
need.

Greetings and thanks again.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Matthieu Wipliez <mwipliez at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hello Carlos,
>
> I don't think so.
> LLVM is not a source-to-source translator, but an optimizing compiler based
> on a portable, typed, assembly-like intermediate representation. One of the
> primary goals of LLVM is to generate optimized object code on a variety of
> platforms.
> Even if you do not use any optimizations, your C++ code would still need to
> be lowered to LLVM, which makes it very hard to get the same code back (if
> at all possible).
> Maybe something along the lines of TXL would be more appropriate for what
> you want to do?
>
> Matthieu
>
>
> *De :* Carlos Crespo <macayaven at gmail.com>
> *À :* llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> *Envoyé le :* Mer 20 octobre 2010, 22h 57min 07s
> *Objet :* [LLVMdev] Source to source translation.
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to do a source to source translation from C++ code to C++ code.
> I want the output to contains some automatically inserted annotations, and
> the rest of the code exactly the same as it was before the processing. Is
> this possible with llvm?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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