llvm dev - Apr 2010 - [LLVMdev] Intro to the MC Project

Several people have asked what the MC project is all about, and it is now
getting to a point where it is pretty interesting and there are lots of
potential projects for people who are interested.  I wrote a big post about what
it is here:
http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html

Thoughts and comments welcome,

-Chris

On Apr 9, 2010, at 23:32:12, Chris Lattner wrote:
> Several people have asked what the MC project is all about, and it is now
getting to a point where it is pretty interesting and there are lots of
potential projects for people who are interested.  I wrote a big post about what
it is here:
> http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html
Thanks for the post, Chris. It definitely helped to fill in some gaps in what
I've learned so far, and I wasn't aware of the blog before. It's
good to read some documentation that I know is current!

-- 
Rick

Hi Chris,

Thanks for taking time to communicate on this.

In your open points, you speak about upgrading the JIT code path. If I want
to take a look (or at least try...) on it, what would be the "roadmap"
?

I assume, a MCJITStreamer is needed.
And probably a JITObjectWriter (inherits from MCObjectWriter) and an
associated TargetAsmBackend specific to the JIT (JITX86AsmBackend) ?

What would be the chaining of calls ? The JITObjectWriter::WriteObject is
called via the AsmPrinter::doFinalization. But how the AsmPrinter will be
created ?

What was on your mind on this subject ? Anyone has already begin to work on
this ?

Olivier.


On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Rick Mann <rmann at latencyzero.com>
wrote:
>
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 23:32:12, Chris Lattner wrote:
>
> > Several people have asked what the MC project is all about, and it is
now
> getting to a point where it is pretty interesting and there are lots of
> potential projects for people who are interested.  I wrote a big post about
> what it is here:
> > http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html
>
> Thanks for the post, Chris. It definitely helped to fill in some gaps in
> what I've learned so far, and I wasn't aware of the blog before.
It's good
> to read some documentation that I know is current!
>
> --
> Rick
>
>
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