[LLVMdev] How to send LLVM IR to a code generator backend

[Villmow, Micah]

You can register your backend with LLC and use the LLC tool to convert from IR to ISA.

More information can be found here:
http://llvm.org/docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html#TargetRegistration
http://llvm.org/cmds/llc.html


> -----Original Message-----
> From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu]
> On Behalf Of Tom Stellard
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 1:15 PM
> To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: [LLVMdev] How to send LLVM IR to a code generator backend
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have implemented a very simple code generator backend, that I would
> like to test.  I currently have a Module object containing the LLVM IR
> that I would like to turn into machine code, but I'm not quite sure how
> to pass it off to the backend to do the instruction selection and begin
> the process of code generation.  How do I go about doing this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
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