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...learning curve less steep and thus started such backend by myself. You can monitor the git repository at http://repo.or.cz/w/llvm/msp430.git. It contains dummy backend and also has several early steps already done. There is also some description what's going on http://community.livejournal.com/ru_llvm/, but unfortunately, only in russian. Hopefully someday it become a proper "Backend for Dummies" article. Hope this will help somehow. -- With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University

Hi Greg, I understand your frustration. I've been on this mailing list for a little over a year hoping that by osmosis I could get a a better handle on writing a back end for LLVM. Although I feel more comfortable with the nomenclature, I still do not have a clue as to how to begin (actually I do, but it sounds more dramatic saying it this way). I've read the documentation, but

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