[LLVMdev] an OS around LLVM

mindmachine at free.fr mindmachine at free.fr
Sat Dec 21 02:00:24 PST 2013


> You might wish to read this thread as well, for some backround on LLVM IR.
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/043719.html
>
> Summary:
> LLVM IR is target specific, not portable between different targets.
> LLVM IR is actually a Compiler IR and not a virtual machine language.

After reading all this, I understand better now. LLVM IR is not what I need for
my OS concept Om. "TCG ops" might be closer to my needs :
http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/TCG
I have to dig this.

Thanks a lot everyone, this was very pleasant and interesting.

Julien





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