LLVM ist a mess

Posted Mar 18, 2024 19:57 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: LLVM ist a mess by paulj
Parent article: Cranelift code generation comes to Rust

Writing a "toy C" compiler had been a course project in my university. It was C with most of its functionality, except things that are baffling, like syntactic ambiguity between function pointers and definitions, dangling else, etc.

It really is not a hard problem. Annoying and somewhat long, but not hard.

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LLVM ist a mess

Posted Mar 19, 2024 5:40 UTC (Tue) by adobriyan (subscriber, #30858) [Link] (1 responses)

And you'll learn operator precedence table for FREE!

LLVM ist a mess

Posted Mar 19, 2024 5:56 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

I actually promptly forgot it. I always just spam the code with braces to disambiguate anything that is more complex than 2*2+1.