[LLVMdev] A question about running Clang after LLVM passes

John Criswell criswell at illinois.edu
Fri Jun 13 07:23:58 PDT 2014


On 6/13/14, 9:22 AM, Tim Northover wrote:
>> The C Backend generates C code instead of native assembly code.  The C code
>> it generates is ugly and looks almost nothing like the original C source
>> code that was compiled.  Again, if you're building a refactoring tool, this
>> is probably not what you want.
> It's also been extinct for a couple of years, hasn't it?

I think someone might be in the process of bringing it back to life (or 
might have already done so).

In any event, even if it does exist in modern LLVM, I don't think it's 
the solution for Padefic's issue.

Regards,

John Criswell
>
> Cheers.
>
> Tim.




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