[haskell-llvm] haskell-llvm An LLVVN backend for DDC

[Henning Thielemann]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Thomas Schilling wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> note that there is an ongoing Summer of Code project which aims to
> modify the existing llvm library for this use case [1].  David
> generated LLVM text files for his BSc work, but the goal is now to
> actually use the LLVM API.  AFAIU the current llvm package does not
> support this use case directly and one part of this GSoC project is to
> add this capabilities.  Hopefully, that can take advantage of those
> efforts.

Are we talking about David Terei's (GHC related) LLVM interface or the one 
by Lennart Augustsson? As far as I know in the latter one there is 
everything you need to write a compiler, e.g. it can generate LLVM 
bytecode files through the LLVM API.