LLVM Cookbook - Couverture souple

Mayur Pandey; Suyog Sarda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 178528598X ISBN 13 : 9781785285981

Editeur : Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

If you are a compiler developer who wants to use the strong optimization techniques of LLVM and learn efficient programming of core front-end, back-end, and JIT compilers then this book is for you. A prior knowledge of compilers would definitely help in getting to know the topics in this book better.
Working knowledge and understanding of C++ is mandatory.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Over 80 engaging recipes that will help you build a compiler frontend, optimizer, and code generator using LLVM

About This Book

• Write a frontend for any language to generate LLVM IR
• Create optimization passes to optimize the IR code using LLVM Pass Infrastructure and Pass Manager
• Design and implement structures for highly-optimized compilers using LLVM, through detailed step-by-step recipes

Who This Book Is For

The book is for compiler programmers who are familiar with concepts of compilers and want to indulge in understanding, exploring, and using LLVM infrastructure in a meaningful way in their work.

This book is also for programmers who are not directly involved in compiler projects but are often involved in development phases where they write thousands of lines of code. With knowledge of how compilers work, they will be able to code in an optimal way and improve performance with clean code.

What You Will Learn

• Introduction to LLVM modular design and LLVM tools
• Write a frontend for a language
• Add JIT support and use frontends for different languages
• Learn about the LLVM Pass infrastructure and the LLVM Pass Manager
• Create analyses and transform optimization passes
• Build a LLVM TOY backend from scratch
• Optimize the code at SelectionDAG level and allocate registers to variables

In Detail

LLVM is a compiler framework with libraries that provides a modern source-and target-independent optimizer, along with a code generator.

This book not only explains the effective use of the compiler infrastructure that LLVM provides, but also helps you implement it in one of your projects. You start with a simple task to get you up-and-running with LLVM, followed by learning the process of writing a frontend for a language, which includes writing a lexer, a parser, and generating IR code. You will then see how to implement optimizations at different levels, generate target-independent code, and then map this generated code to a backend. Finally, you will look into the functionalities that the LLVM infrastructure provides, such as exception handling, LLVM Utility Passes, using sanitizers, the garbage collector, and how we can use these in our projects.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mayur Pandey

Mayur Pandey is a professional software engineer and an open source enthusiast. He focuses on compiler development and compiler tools. He is an active contributor to the LLVM open source community. He has been part of the compiler team for the Tizen project, and has hands-on experience with other proprietary compilers. Mayur earned a bachelor's degree in information technology from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India. Currently, he lives in Bengaluru, India.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178528598X
• ISBN 13: 9781785285981
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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