X-Git-Url: https://git.stderr.nl/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Report%2FMain%2FContext%2FLLVM.tex;h=0ba81fbd9bd9da60bcf49520df0a92efd4c5720f;hb=8a42b79a08ff544b66a1c7e3fc5e37fdfe64de5b;hp=9d14cbc645b683788a360af30a7614a71c64979b;hpb=bda4ad2a7baf347f8bb7239ae998088a6987b73b;p=matthijs%2Fprojects%2Finternship.git diff --git a/Report/Main/Context/LLVM.tex b/Report/Main/Context/LLVM.tex index 9d14cbc..0ba81fb 100644 --- a/Report/Main/Context/LLVM.tex +++ b/Report/Main/Context/LLVM.tex @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ The Low Level Virtual Machine project (LLVM, \cite{LLVM}, \cite{Lattner:MSThesis02}) is a framework for compiler construction. It provides its own intermediate representation, the LLVM IR. This is a simple language that can be used to -expres any program in a static single assignment (SSA) form that is easy to -reason with and transform. +express any program in a static single assignment (SSA) form that is easy to +reason with and apply transformations to. Additionally, LLVM provides a host of libraries to work with this IR. There is code for: @@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ code for: In addition, the LLVM project provides two frontends for generating LLVM IR: llvm-gcc, which uses gcc to compile a lot of languages with an LLVM backend (from -the gcc point of view) and clang, which is a completely new project designed to +the gcc point of view) and Clang, which is a completely new project designed to parse and emit LLVM IR for all c-like languages (C, ObjC, C++). From the LLVM project, we use a number of parts. In section \ref{MontiumC}, we -saw that clang frontend is used directly in the Montium frontend. Also, a lot of +saw that Clang frontend is used directly in the Montium frontend. Also, a lot of transformations from the LLVM project are used. Lastly, a number of small library functions and components are used in the frontend.