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Hi all, I just delivered an LLVM-overview presentation today. If you're interested, the slides are available here: http://llvm.org/pubs/2006-04-25-GelatoLLVMIntro.html It's pretty high-level, but it describes the design and motivation of LLVM, particularly touching on some of the capabilities that LLVM has that (say) GCC can't (at least not in the foreseeable future). -Chris -- http://nondot.org/sabre/ http://llvm.org/

...egularity/simplicity of the LLVM IR. > > And last but not least: Which parts of the documentation must I > definitely read in the first place to get started to hack LLVM (I'll > read all of course, but I'd like to focus right now). Try this: http://llvm.org/pubs/2006-04-25-GelatoLLVMIntro.html http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html http://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/index.html http://llvm.org/docs/ProgrammersManual.html http://llvm.org/docs/GetElementPtr.html http://llvm.org/docs/FAQ.html Reid. > > __________________________________...

A few days ago Craig Black made the suggestion in the D newsgroup, that someone creates a D <http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html> frontend for LLVM. Never having heard of LLVM in the past, I immediately got captured by its design when I've read the documentation. I was always scared by GCC - a great piece of software, but horribly bad documented, and in it's own way not very