[LLVMdev] LLVM teaching materials

[Sanjiv]

I guess even kaleidoscope would serve as a good tutorial

-sanjiv

On 24 May 2011 17:23, "Tobias Grosser" <grosser at fim.uni-passau.de> wrote:
>
> On 05/24/2011 05:18 AM, Christian Plessl wrote:
> >
> > On 28.02.2011, at 15:44, Tobias Grosser wrote:
> >
> >> On 02/28/2011 05:27 AM, Christian Plessl wrote:
> >>> Hi everyone
> >>>
> >>> I am teaching a lecture on hardware/software codesign which, though
not a dedicated compiler course, covers quite a bit of compiler related
contents (general introduction, intermediate code, code generation).
> >>>
> >>> I'm currently considering replacing and/or extending this compiler
related lecture parts with an introduction to LLVM as an example for a
modern compiler framework, which we are also using extensively in our
research.
> >>>
> >>> Does anybody know of good teaching materials on LLVM? For example, a
basic compiler course that use LLVM as a example? I searched the web a bit
but didn't find anything suitable.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>    Christian
> >>
> >> I put some slides I used on my webpage.
> >>
> >> http://www.grosser.es
> >>
> >> You can use them. However, they are just a bunch and only about
specific
> >> topics. No general compiler introduction. Furthermore, we did have a
lot
> >> of interactive discussions, so without having attended the class they
> >> may be difficult to understand.
> >
> >
> > Thanks, your slides have been helpful. For my course, I came up with the
following set of slides for a basic introduction to LLVM.
> >
> >
http://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/plessl/lectures/2011-Codesign/slides/02-Compiler-LLVM.pdf
> >
> > Anyone is welcome to use these slides.
>
> Hey Christian,
>
> thanks for letting us know. I really like your slides and I am tempted
> to steal quite a bit, if I talk about LLVM the next time. ;-)
>
> One minor suggestion. You use dotty to show the CFG. I did this a long
> time and now moved to xdot.py [1]. I like it a lot better. If you put it
> in your path at least the cmake build of LLVM will automatically use it.
> (It needs to be in the path, before you run the configure)
>
> Cheers
> Tobi
>
>
> [1]http://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/XDot
>
>
> >> It would be great to create a svn branch to share slides for such a
course.
> >
> > Definitely. Such teaching materials would be very useful.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   Christian
>
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