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Learn LLVM 12. A beginner's guide to learning LLVM compiler tools and core libraries with C++

Learn LLVM 12. A beginner's guide to learning LLVM compiler tools and core libraries with C++

Kai Nacke

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LLVM was built to bridge the gap between compiler textbooks and actual compiler development. It provides a modular codebase and advanced tools which help developers to build compilers easily. This book provides a practical introduction to LLVM, gradually helping you navigate through complex scenarios with ease when it comes to building and working with compilers.
You’ll start by configuring, building, and installing LLVM libraries, tools, and external projects. Next, the book will introduce you to LLVM design and how it works in practice during each LLVM compiler stage: frontend, optimizer, and backend. Using a subset of a real programming language as an example, you will then learn how to develop a frontend and generate LLVM IR, hand it over to the optimization pipeline, and generate machine code from it. Later chapters will show you how to extend LLVM with a new pass and how instruction selection in LLVM works. You’ll also focus on Just-in-Time compilation issues and the current state of JIT-compilation support that LLVM provides, before finally going on to understand how to develop a new backend for LLVM.
By the end of this LLVM book, you will have gained real-world experience in working with the LLVM compiler development framework with the help of hands-on examples and source code snippets.
  • 1. Installing LLVM
  • 2. Touring the LLVM source
  • 3. The Structure of a Compiler
  • 4. Turning the Source File into an Abstract Syntax Tree
  • 5. Basics of IR Generation
  • 6. IR Generation for High-Level Language Constructs
  • 7. Advanced IR Generation
  • 8. Optimizing IR
  • 9. Instruction Selection
  • 10. JIT Compilation
  • 11. Debugging Using LLVM Tools
  • 12. Creating Your Own Backend
  • Title: Learn LLVM 12. A beginner's guide to learning LLVM compiler tools and core libraries with C++
  • Author: Kai Nacke
  • Original title: Learn LLVM 12. A beginner's guide to learning LLVM compiler tools and core libraries with C++
  • ISBN: 9781839210037, 9781839210037
  • Date of issue: 2021-05-28
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_2a4e
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing