Re: How to Write Your Own Compiler with LLVM

Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:43:51 +0000

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*Re: How to Write Your Own Compiler with LLVM jon@ffconsultancy.com (Jon Harrop)* (2010-02-11)**

From:	Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Newsgroups:	comp.compilers
Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:43:51 +0000
Organization:	Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
References:	10-02-040
Keywords:	tools
Posted-Date:	13 Feb 2010 11:31:54 EST

A.F. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So sorry if the question seems basic, but would like an paper or
> another document equivalent to the tutorial below:
>
> How to Write Your Own Compiler
> http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/>ompilerwrite
>
> But more focused and a little more advanced.

You may like the HLVM series I wrote for the OCaml Journal that describes
the design and implementation of a high-level virtual machine with tuples,
discriminated unions, a FFI, JIT compilation and a multicore-friendly
garbage collector:

http://ocamlnews.blogspot.com/2009/01/building-virtual-machine-using-llvm.html
http://ocamlnews.blogspot.com/2009/02/building-virtual-machine-using-llvm.html
http://ocamlnews.blogspot.com/2009/03/building-virtual-machine-with-llvm-part.html
http://ocamlnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/llvm-26-support-and-new-hlvm-garbage.html
http://ocamlnews.blogspot.com/2010/01/high-performance-parallel-programming.html

There is also a full compiler series in progress:

http://ocamlnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/compiler-development-part-1.html

--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?u