llvm dev - May 2012 - [LLVMdev] Adapting Kalaidoscope tutorial for use with LLVM.NET/LLVM-F#?

Hi,

I have decided against coding my planned Braceless compiler in C++ and have
instead opted for using the .NET bindings that Keith Shephard have made
using F# (a .NET language).  This leads to two questions:

   1. Is it okay if I adapt the Kalaidoscope tutorial to C# and we include
the adapted version in the LLVM.NET distro and on the LLVM.NET website?  I
have written very clearly that Chris Lattner wrote the article and that I
am to be contacted in case of errors (as they are surely mine), but I'd
like your formal approval of the idea.  Basically, I am going to redo the
sample code in C# and then achieve the same goal that Chris achieves: To
illustrate how easy LLVM is to use.  As for the actual article text, I am
planning on using Chris' words as unmodfied as I can do (all occurences of
C++ being replaced by C# and so forth).

   2. LLVM.NET/LLVM-F# uses the C API.  Are there anything important
missing from this API, things that are only accessible through the C API?


Cheers,
Mikael
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Hi Mikael,
>     2. LLVM.NET/LLVM-F# <http://LLVM.NET/LLVM-F#> uses the C API. 
Are there
> anything important missing from this API, things that are only accessible
> through the C API?
there's lots missing from the C API because functionality is added when
someone
needs it.  In the other direction, there's nothing the C binding can do that
the C++ API can't as far as I know.  That's not to say that the C
binding maps
directly onto the C++ API, some methods map to a sequence of C++ calls.

Ciao, Duncan

Hi, Does any documentation exist (or maybe could someone give an
overview) on what kind of stuff we're missing out on by binding to the
C API? I'd be really interested to know.

Thank you,
Keith

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr>
wrote:
> Hi Mikael,
>
>>     2. LLVM.NET/LLVM-F# <http://LLVM.NET/LLVM-F#> uses the C API.
 Are there
>> anything important missing from this API, things that are only
accessible
>> through the C API?
>
> there's lots missing from the C API because functionality is added when
someone
> needs it.  In the other direction, there's nothing the C binding can do
that
> the C++ API can't as far as I know.  That's not to say that the C
binding maps
> directly onto the C++ API, some methods map to a sequence of C++ calls.
>
> Ciao, Duncan
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