LLVM and C99 and classic Mac OS (Re: LLVM and HLVM)

2006-08-27 Thread Joshua Juran
On Aug 22, 2006, at 5:52 PM, John Siracusa wrote: Has anyone looked at LLVM lately? http://llvm.org/ I discovered it a few years ago. My personal interest is in the portable C back end, so I can use the g++ compiler front end and send the output through CodeWarrior or MPW compilers, whos

Re: LLVM and HLVM

2006-08-23 Thread Aaron Sherman
John Siracusa wrote: On 8/23/06 4:09 PM, Aaron Sherman wrote: here's the problem with that: llvm is a very light layer, but it's yet another layer. To put it between parrot and hardware would mean that parrot is JITing to LLVM byte-code, which is JITing to machine code. Not really ideal.

Re: LLVM and HLVM

2006-08-23 Thread John Siracusa
On 8/23/06 4:09 PM, Aaron Sherman wrote: > here's the problem with that: llvm is a very light layer, but it's yet another > layer. To put it between parrot and hardware would mean that parrot is JITing > to LLVM byte-code, which is JITing to machine code. Not really ideal. ...unless LLVM does a mu

Re: LLVM and HLVM

2006-08-23 Thread peter baylies
On 8/23/06, Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/23/06, peter baylies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/22/06, John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Has anyone looked at LLVM lately? [...] On the other hand, Parrot built quite nicely on x86-64, although I think I > like t

Re: LLVM and HLVM

2006-08-23 Thread Aaron Sherman
On 8/23/06, peter baylies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/22/06, John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone looked at LLVM lately? [...] On the other hand, Parrot built quite nicely on x86-64, although I think I like the 32-bit build (which also built just fine, albeit without

Re: LLVM and HLVM

2006-08-23 Thread peter baylies
On 8/22/06, John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone looked at LLVM lately? Yes, actually, I was looking at it just the other day. I couldn't get it to build on x86-64, but I talked to some of the developers over in their IRC channel, and they told me that this would be forthcoming