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...erstanding of Target classes is mandatory before proceeding to use TableGen. I guess what would help would be a tutorial that shows how one goes about writing a back-end for a fictitious target machine - something similar to "Porting GCC for Dunces" (http://ftp.axis.se/pub/users/hp/pgccfd/pgccfd.pdf ). Also a pre-made "Dummy" back-end that had some basic instructions would also go a long way in helping someone write a back-end. Alex Karahalios On Apr 11, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Greg McGary wrote: > As we've already seen, David Chisnall prefers hacking LLVM over GCC...

As we've already seen, David Chisnall prefers hacking LLVM over GCC (see http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1215438): "In contrast, every time I look at the GCC code, it takes two people to prevent me from clawing my eyeballs out." I'm sorry to report that so-far I have had the opposite experience. Some years ago, I ported binutils (via CGEN) and GCC to an

...#39;s quite questionable whether it will be better than C++ :) > I guess what would help would be a tutorial that shows how one goes about > writing a back-end for a fictitious target machine - something similar to > "Porting GCC for Dunces" > (http://ftp.axis.se/pub/users/hp/pgccfd/pgccfd.pdf). Also > a pre-made "Dummy" back-end that had some basic instructions would also go a > long way in helping someone write a back-end. Recently on the horizont appeared some group of enthusiasts willing to write MSP430 backend. I'm trying to make their learning curve l...