why doesn't llvm transfer bytecode to RTL form?
I mean the cross-platform compile in GCC.
Could LLVM do that?
maybe tree-ssa also create the representation with a testual format if
needed.
is it very difficalt?
I want to know.
BWT:
if we port pthread library to llvm, what do we consider at first?
yueqiang
Chris Lattner wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, yue wrote:
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>>what difference is between gcc3.5 tree-ssa and llvm?
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>They are completely different projects. The short version is that LLVM is
>more mature and stable than tree-ssa is, LLVM supports interprocedural and
>runtime optimization, and LLVM has a well defined intermediate
>representation with a textual format. On the other hand tree-ssa may be a
>part of GCC 3.5 someday once it has stabilized and enough bugs have been
>fixed. Oh, LLVM is written in C++ and tree-ssa is written in C.
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>If there is something more specific you want to know, please ask. It's
>very much the difference between apples and oranges.
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>-Chris
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