[LLVMdev] Python Backend

[Wojciech Daniło]

You are of course right. I wanted to output "good looking" Python code
though.
(if its possible)

I see that NVPTX backend is really big project. Is there any hello
world "common
codegen infrastructure"?

2012/11/21 Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com>

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Wojciech Daniło
> <wojtek.danilo.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I will take a look into NVPTX.
> >
> > I don't want to deconstruct C++ classes to generate Python code - I want
> to
> > generate Python backend :)
> > Its purpose is to be able to generate Python code from LLVM IR code (not
> C++
> > code! - C++ code is needed for me only to get a sample IR code).
> >
> > I want to write my custom compiler in the future and I want to be able to
> > output Python code from it (of course not only Python code - I want to be
> > able to output IR or bytecode also), so I though that writing Python
> Backend
> > (as a function pass) is the best solution. Am I wrong?
>
> What I was trying to say is that I don't see why you need Python
> classes in the generated code. LLVM IR is much lower than the concept
> of classes, so if you want to translate it to some executable form
> (such as Python) you don't need classes there. Functions to represent
> IR functions should be enough.
>
> Eli
>
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