[LLVMdev] llvm-mc standalone assemblers and testing

[Owen Anderson]

On Jan 11, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Carter, Jack wrote:

> I have had references to llvm-mc in terms of a tester for MC level code changes and have just found and read the blog http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html. 
> 
> Am I correct that lib/Target/<target>/AsmParser/*.cpp needs to be completed to make a standalone assembler for a specific target and until that is done, llvm-mc can't be used to generate output object that is tested by elf-dump?

You need to implement an AsmParser if you want to generate object files from assembly files.  You can generate object files from higher-level inputs (.c, .ll) without a functional AsmParser as long as your inputs don't use inline assembly.

--Owen
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