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Learn LLVM 17

You're reading from   Learn LLVM 17 A beginner's guide to learning LLVM compiler tools and core libraries with C++

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631346
Length 416 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Basics of Compiler Construction with LLVM
2. Chapter 1: Installing LLVM FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Structure of a Compiler 4. Part 2: From Source to Machine Code Generation
5. Chapter 3: Turning the Source File into an Abstract Syntax Tree 6. Chapter 4: Basics of IR Code Generation 7. Chapter 5: IR Generation for High-Level Language Constructs 8. Chapter 6: Advanced IR Generation 9. Chapter 7: Optimizing IR 10. Part 3: Taking LLVM to the Next Level
11. Chapter 8: The TableGen Language 12. Chapter 9: JIT Compilation 13. Chapter 10: Debugging Using LLVM Tools 14. Part 4: Roll Your Own Backend
15. Chapter 11: The Target Description 16. Chapter 12: Instruction Selection 17. Chapter 13: Beyond Instruction Selection 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Handling messages for the user

Only a centralized definition of messages is missing. In a large piece of software (such as a compiler), you do not want to sprinkle message strings all over the place. If there is a request to change messages or translate them into another language, then you better have them in a central place!

A simple approach is that each message has an ID (an enum member), a severity level such as Error or Warning, and a string containing the messages. In your code, you only refer to the message ID. The severity level and message string are only used when the message is printed. These three items (the ID, the security level, and the message) must be managed consistently. The LLVM libraries use the preprocessor to solve this. The data is stored in a file with the .def suffix and is wrapped in a macro name. That file is usually included several times, with different definitions for the macro. The definition is in the include/tinylang/Basic/Diagnostic.def file path...

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