[antlr-interest] LLVM example: wiki or book?

[Terence Parr]

Hi Guys,

Ok, I'm rapidly running into my deadline for the book. by the end of  
the day I hope to finish the translation and then the generation  
chapters. you will see a beta of at least one of those chapters this  
week. That leaves the sort of " wrapping up" chapter, which doesn't  
really scream "Put a big LLVM example in".

To satisfy you folks, would be sufficient if I put it up on the wiki  
with some good but not perfect description as well as the full source  
code for my C subset to LLVM example?

Ter
On Jun 24, 2009, at 10:30 AM, J. Stephen Riley Silber wrote:

>
> I think Waverly's point wasn't the complexity of the grammar of the  
> language.  No one is arguing the simplicity of the Smalltalk  
> grammar.  His point was that compiling a simple imperative language  
> to LLVM will demonstrate the basics of LLVM IL generation.   
> "Everyone knows C", so it should make for a relatively simple  
> tutorial.
>
> I know nothing about LLVM besides what's on its project homepage,  
> but I am confident that a C subset example will allow me to ramp up  
> quickly to the point where I could implement "advanced" features  
> such as dynamic dispatch in short order.
>
> Ter, consider this a hearty seconding of Waverly's suggestion.  It's  
> a great idea.
>
> --- On Wed, 6/24/09, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Damien Cassou <damien.cassou at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] ok, will build an LLVM example for book
> To: "Edwards, Waverly" <Waverly.Edwards at genesys.com>
> Cc: "antlr-interest at antlr.org ANTLR" <antlr-interest at antlr.org>
> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 9:47 AM
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Edwards,
> Waverly<Waverly.Edwards at genesys.com> wrote:
> > A Smalltalk or Java type language subset might be nice but overly  
> complex, possibly
> > loosing your reader.
>
> The entire Smalltalk language represents no more than 17 AST nodes. I
> don't consider that overly complex.
>
> -- 
> Damien Cassou
> http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
>
> "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them
> popular by not having them." James Iry
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