On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 04/03/2015 09:41 AM, Diego Novillo wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: >> I was hesitant to offer this option, but it's certainly a good >> starting point. The representation encodes CFG, SSA, attributes, >> declarations and annotations. It has a relatively fixed syntax, which >> makes it easy to parse. > > > Certainly using LLVM's textual format opens up a significant cans of worms, > but there's some obvious (and some less than obvious) benefits.
I also want to mention that LLVM's IR is not an equivalent of GCC's IR: for instance, in GCC we have multi dimensional array types that are missing in LLVM. Having an IR that is more readable than LLVM's would be nice. Thanks, Sebastian
