[LLVMdev] an OS around LLVM

Micah Villmow micah.villmow at smachines.com
Mon Dec 23 08:56:22 PST 2013


You also might want to check out LLVA and its successor SVA, which do sort of what you want.


micah

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> To: James Courtier-Dutton
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> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] an OS around LLVM
> 
> > 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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