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| From: | Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@g...> |
| Subject: | RE: Value types (Was: [Caml-list] ocamlopt LLVM support) |
Edwin wrote: > AFAICT LLVM's OCaml bindings are only good for generating LLVM IR from > OCaml, not for actually performing transformations on it (there is no > binding to retrieve the type of a value for example). I'll probably be > looking into fixing that in the near future, and this may indirectly > help your LLVM backend (if you intend to write OCaml specific > transformations on the LLVM IR). That's a lot of work. Wouldn't it be preferable to do the passes on the OCaml side and focus on generating high quality LLVM IR? Cheers, Jon.