Chapter 1. LLVM Design and Use

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Understanding modular design
• Cross-compiling Clang/LLVM
• Converting a C source code to LLVM assembly
• Converting IR to LLVM bitcode
• Converting LLVM bitcode to target machine assembly
• Converting LLVM bitcode back to LLVM assembly
• Transforming LLVM IR
• Linking LLVM bitcode
• Executing LLVM bitcode
• Using C frontend Clang
• Using the GO frontend
• Using DragonEgg