Re: A small LLVM tutorial: debugging information

Eric Christopher <echristo@gmail.com>
Tue, 29 May 2012 17:59:50 -0700

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A small LLVM tutorial: debugging information vincent@famillebelliard.fr (vincent_belliard) (2012-05-25)
Re: A small LLVM tutorial: debugging information echristo@gmail.com (Eric Christopher) (2012-05-29)
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From: Eric Christopher <echristo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 17:59:50 -0700
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 12-05-023
Keywords: LLVM
Posted-Date: 30 May 2012 14:52:10 EDT

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:06 AM, vincent_belliard <vincent@famillebelliard.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I updated my LLVM tutorial. I added few things about debugging generation. You can find the whole tutorial at:
>
> http://entity-language.googlecode.com/files/llvm_tutorial.pdf


One thing your tutorial doesn't mention is that it's much easier to produce a
frontend if you use the "builder" classes (or bindings to them). IRBuilder and
DIBuilder (LLVM IR and debug info metadata respectively) are much easier
to generate when you use these interfaces.


-eric


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