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

[Dan Cross]

In article <sv3a3g$9rl$1 at dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>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.

You didn't specify that as a requirement.

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

I'll bet cookies to cake it's got at least a MIPS backend.

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

*shrug* I wasn't being literal, but here we are.

	- Dan C.