[LLVMdev] Python Backend

[Wojciech Daniło]

Maybe you're right with the Python code generation without classes.
I need this because I want to write compiler with multi output language
support (LLVM has got the javascript backend, so why not Python one?)
It seems that  http://llvm.org/docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html is strongly
focused on hardware backend writing (registers, target machine
architecture, assembly instructions etc) - so it will be not suitable for
writing Python backend.
I know that this code could be usefull as code reference, but I stuck on
the beginning, so I would love to have a really "minimal working version of
it" to mess with it :)


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

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Wojciech Daniło
> <wojtek.danilo.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You are of course right. I wanted to output "good looking" Python code
> > though.
> > (if its possible)
> >
>
> Good looking Python code means no classes when you don't need classes,
> but this is getting off-topic. Putting that aside for a moment, I'm
> not sure why you would want to generate Python source from LLVM IR at
> all. But if you want to go that way, looking at the defunct C backend
> will be useful even as a code reference (I mean, if you can't get it
> to actually work with trunk LLVM).
>
> Eli
>
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