[pypy-dev] llvm backend

[Simon Burton]

On Wed, 24 May 2006 14:02:07 +1000
Simon Burton <simon at arrowtheory.com> wrote:

> 
> But I'm also looking at the source for the llvm translator and there is
> code there for generating llva directly.

I'm gradually finding more pieces of the puzzle:

1) there is a wrapper to LLVM's ExecutionEngine.ParseAssemblyString
2) there are calls to ee.parse in pyllvm/test/test_ee.py, but only with test snippets

but then:

3) there is code for generating llva in codewriter.py
4) calls to codewriter come from *node.py modules, these stitch together the pypy
flow and type objects into llva code
5) genllvm.py coordinates all of this and then calls to buildllvm 

It seems that steps 1 and 2 are yet to be used as buildllvm uses the commandline
llvm-as at the moment.

Simon.

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