[LLVMdev] Python Backend

[Roel Jordans]

Hi,

I have a version of the old CBackend which is working with the current
trunk.

I am in the progress of rewriting it into a new version but that project
is not going as fast as I would hope as I have been distracted by other
tasks with higher priority lately.

Anyway, for those interested, I can provide patches, optionally
separated into several parts (core, testing, misc).

I am afraid that the main patch is larger than the LLVM mailing lists
allows me to send over the list directly

Cheers,
  Roel

On 21/11/12 00:46, Wojciech Daniło wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm trying to write LLVM Python Backend (to generate Python code out of
> LLVM IR)
> I'm still learning LLVM and for now it is very hard to me to even create
> simple taksk. I want you to ask 3 questions:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1)
>   I want to base on some existing code to learn how it was build. I
> wanted to base on CBackend (which is no longer available from LLVM 3.0
> up) and of course it does not compile with LLVM 3.2 - giving a lot of
> errors:
> (the code is taken from source of LLVM 3.0 and put into
> $LLVMSRC/projects/<copy of sample project>/lib/Target/CBackend - I hope
> this is good method to do it)
> http://pastebin.com/dkbJWpgP
> Does anybody have this example working under LLVM3.2? I have found on
> some old mailing lists that CBackend was never working as  it should but
> it was working for some simple examples - I'm looking for somethingl ike
> that in LLVM 3.2.
> If not, what is the best minimal example I can base onto writing my backend?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2)
> Maybe this question I will answer myself by analising some examples
> you'll provide as answer to the first question, but maybe it will worth
> asking it now.
> So I want to know when to generate a class in Python. So far I know,
> that in LLVM there are no classes, only functions, but when using the
> online LLVM generator I can see, that when generating IR from C++ code,
> the "class" keyword is stored inside of name (or something like name) of
> function:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> class X{
> public:
> void f();
> };
> void X::f() { printf("inside f");}
> int main() {  X x;  x.f();}
>
> translates into:
>
> [...]
>
> define  void  @_ZN1X1fEv(%class.X*nocapture  %this)nounwind  uwtablealign  2 {
>    %1 =tail  call  i32  (i8*, ...)* @printf(i8*getelementptr  inbounds ([9 xi8]* @.str,i64  0,i64  0))
>    ret  void
> }
>
> [...]
>
>
> How can I access it inside of my function Pass to get know if it was class or not?
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 3)
>
>
> Is there any manual that will help me discover all these advanced LLVM features needed to write such backend? I have read LLVM Kaleidoscope tutorials, some LLVM tutorials from IBM and lot of articles, but I still feel that I have not knowledge enough.
>
>
>
> Thank you :)
>
>