LLVM IR influence on compiler debugging

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-07-07 03:17, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> Walter refuses to look at the code for any other compiler. He has been well
> served in the past by being able to say that he has never looked at the code
> of another compiler when the lawyers come knocking. So, as I understand it,
> anything that would require him to even _look_ at the backend's code, let
> alone work on it, would make it so he won't do it. And I very much doubt that
> he'd want to work on a compiler where he can't work on the backend (plus, I
> would assume that you'd have to look at the backend to work on the glue code,
> so he'd be restricted entirely to the frontend-specific portions of the
> compiler).

Theoretically you should be able to just look at the documentation but I 
understand what you're meaning.

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/Jacob Carlborg