Is it possible to use LLVM-assembly directly?

assembly llvm llvm-ir
fuz picture fuz · Oct 14, 2011 · Viewed 12.8k times · Source

I have read some webpages and articles about llvm and I am quite interested in this project. (Maybe to learn something about compiler writing without the need to struggle with the complicated points of x86).

There are pages that describe how to write llvm assembly and how to assemble it, but I did not find anything on what kind of environment is needed to actually execute these. I know that I could run llvm-gcc on my files to get an object file that is executable in a C-context. But in the case that I don't want to use the C runtime environmen (libc.so and friends), what is needed to run llvm code? Is there any documentation on that?

Answer

Kurt Stutsman picture Kurt Stutsman · Oct 14, 2011

There appears to be an LLVM assembler.

llvm-as is the LLVM assembler. It reads a file containing human-readable LLVM assembly language, translates it to LLVM bitcode, and writes the result into a file or to standard output.

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