[LLVMdev] LLVM targeting HLLs

[Chris Lattner]

On Jan 24, 2011, at 2:01 PM, David Given wrote:

> I am interested in using LLVM to translate C and C++ into high-level
> language code. (As an update to an earlier project of mine, Clue, which
> used the Sparse compiler library to do this: it targets Lua, Javascript,
> Perl 5, C, Java and Common Lisp, with a disturbing amount of success.
> See http://cluecc.sourceforge.net for details.)

If you're familiar with Sparse, then I strongly recommend basing this project on Clang ASTs, not basing it on LLVM IR.

-Chris