How is native code generated using llvm?
If it is possible, can it be done using a Haskell binding?
upd: I mean generate code not in memory, I mean how to generate code and for example save it to file.
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How is native code generated using llvm?
If it is possible, can it be done using a Haskell binding?
upd: I mean generate code not in memory, I mean how to generate code and for example save it to file.
LLVM is a compiler infrastructure that generates native code by processing its internal language — produced by compilers as textual source or an in-memory representation — through a wide variety of optimisations and transformations before converting and linking it into the final native code. So, yes, LLVM can generate native code; in fact, that’s its primary purpose.
There is a binding to the LLVM library for Haskell. You can produce LLVM bitcode files with
writeBitcodeToFile;llvm-ldcan then link those into native code.