[Info-vax] LLVM, was: Re: And another one bites the dust....

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-02-21, Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
> In article <sv0onu$66b$1 at dont-email.me>,
> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>
>>I wish there were a more lightweight compiler toolchain that targeted
>>the same range of backends that LLVM does and for which it was also
>>easy to plug in your own frontend...
>
> You mean like GEM?  :-D
>

GEM is not freely available so it can't be downloaded and built on Linux.

No backends for x86, x86-64, ARM, or MIPS.

No documentation on how to add your own frontend to GEM.

Simon.

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