| Description |
1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations |
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Community Experience Distilled |
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Community experience distilled.
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Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Build and Install LLVM; Understanding LLVM versions; Obtaining prebuilt packages; Obtaining the official prebuilt binaries; Using package managers; Staying updated with snapshot packages; Building from sources; System requirements; Obtaining sources; SVN; Git; Building and installing LLVM; Using the autotools-generated configure script; Using CMake and Ninja; Using other Unix approaches; Windows and Microsoft Visual Studio; Mac OS X and Xcode; Summary |
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Chapter 2: External ProjectsIntroducing Clang extras; Building and installing Clang extra tools; Understanding Compiler-RT; Seeing Compiler-RT in action; Using the DragonEgg plugin; Building DragonEgg; Understanding the compilation pipeline with DragonEgg and LLVM tools; Understanding the LLVM test suite; Using LLDB; Exercising a debug session with LLDB; Introducing the libc++ standard library; Summary; Chapter 3: Tools and Design; Introducing LLVM''s basic design principles and its history; Understanding LLVM today; Interacting with the compiler driver; Using standalone tools |
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Delving into the LLVM internal designGetting to know LLVM''s basic libraries; Introducing LLVM''s C++ practices; Seeing polymorphism in practice; Introducing C++ templates in LLVM; Enforcing C++ best practices in LLVM; Making string references lightweight in LLVM; Demonstrating the pluggable pass interface; Writing your first LLVM project; Writing the Makefile; Writing the code; Navigating the LLVM source -- general advice; Understanding the code as a documentation; Asking the community for help; Coping with updates -- using the SVN log as a documentation; Concluding remarks; Summary |
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Chapter 4: The FrontendIntroducing Clang; Frontend actions; Libraries; Using libclang; Understanding Clang diagnostics; Reading diagnostics; Learning the frontend phases with Clang; Lexical analysis; Exercising lexical errors; Writing libclang code that uses the lexer; Preprocessing; Syntactic analysis; Understanding Clang AST nodes; Understanding the parser actions with a debugger; Exercising a parser error; Writing code that traverses the Clang AST; Serializing the AST with precompiled headers; Semantic analysis; Exercising a semantic error; Generating the LLVM IR code; Putting it together |
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Chapter 5: The LLVM Intermediate Representation; Overview; Understanding the LLVM IR target dependency; Exercising basic tools to manipulate the IR formats; Introducing the LLVM IR language syntax; Introducing the LLVM IR in-memory model; Writing a custom LLVM IR generator; Building and running the IR generator; Learning how to write code to generate any IR construct with the C++ backend; Optimizing at the IR level; Compile-time and link-time optimizations; Discovering which passes matter; Understanding pass dependencies; Understanding the pass API; Writing a custom pass |
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This book is intended for enthusiasts, computer science students, and compiler engineers interested in learning about the LLVM framework. You need a background in C++ and, although not mandatory, should know at least some compiler theory. Whether you are a newcomer or a compiler expert, this book provides a practical introduction to LLVM and avoids complex scenarios. If you are interested enough and excited about this technology, then this book is definitely for you |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 4, 2014) |
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Application software -- Development.
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Computer software -- Development.
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COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- C++.
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COMPUTERS -- Programming -- General.
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Application software -- Development
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Computer software -- Development
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Auler, Rafael, author
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Sawant, Aniket, cover designer
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| ISBN |
9781782166931 |
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1782166939 |
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1782166920 |
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9781782166924 |
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