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David Given <dg at cowlark.com> writes: > The obvious place to start on this is the C backend, except in these 2.8 > days the C backend is so hedged about with caveats I'm rather wary of > basing anything on it. I also recall seeing comments here that it's due > for a rewrite from scratch, and that various people were looking into > it. Can anyone go into more detail

I am interested in using LLVM to translate C and C++ into high-level language code. (As an update to an earlier project of mine, Clue, which used the Sparse compiler library to do this: it targets Lua, Javascript, Perl 5, C, Java and Common Lisp, with a disturbing amount of success. See http://cluecc.sourceforge.net for details.) The obvious place to start on this is the C backend, except in