Learn LLVM IR in Action

Learn LLVM IR in Action, available at $54.99, with 20 lectures, and has 6 subscribers.

You will learn about Setup LLVM development environment Translate high level program constructs into LLVM IR Master LLVM APIs Create a toy compiler by using LLVM libs This course is ideal for individuals who are Compiler principle students curious about LLVM develop It is particularly useful for Compiler principle students curious about LLVM develop.

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Title: Learn LLVM IR in Action

Price: $54.99

Number of Lectures: 20

Number of Published Lectures: 20

Number of Curriculum Items: 20

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 20

Original Price: $29.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Setup LLVM development environment
Translate high level program constructs into LLVM IR
Master LLVM APIs
Create a toy compiler by using LLVM libs

Who Should Attend

Compiler principle students curious about LLVM develop

Target Audiences

Compiler principle students curious about LLVM develop

In this course you are going to learn about converting high level programming constructs into LLVM IR by using LLVM APIs. This is a practical class about LLVM programming. After learning this class, you will be able to write your own compiler by using LLVM infrastructure.

This course has two prerequisites. Firstly, basic C/C++ programming skills is required. You must be familiar with the follwing knowledge, such as variables, functions, pointers, etc. Secondly, basic compiler principle concepts is recommended. It will be helpull if you know the follwing concepts, such as parser, basic blocks, SSA, etc.

All the source code will be discussed and developed in this course is presented in this github url. Before we dive into llvm programming, let’s review the core compoents of compiler architecture.

In general, compiler will translate source files into an executable file in three phases.

On phase one, the compiler frontend reads the soure file and produce ir file.

On phase two, the compiler middleend reads the ir and emit the optimized ir.

On phase three, the compile reads the ir produced by the middleend and produce an executable file.

From this compiler architecture diagram we can see that there are lots of stuff to do to implement a compiler. By using LLVM libraries, things become simplified.

The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. By using LLVM, compiler developer only need to modify their frontend to emit llvm ir. We can reuse llvm middleend and llvm backend. Finally we can get a high quality executable file produced by LLVM tools.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: A Tutorial Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Setup

Lecture 3: LLVM Module

Lecture 4: Create Main Function

Chapter 2: Variables, Constants and Types

Lecture 1: Global Variables

Lecture 2: Local Variables

Lecture 3: Constants

Lecture 4: Types

Lecture 5: Casts

Chapter 3: Binary Operations

Lecture 1: Arithmetic Instruction

Lecture 2: Bitwise Instruction

Lecture 3: Compare Instruction

Chapter 4: Control Flow and Functions

Lecture 1: If-else branch

Lecture 2: Switch-case

Lecture 3: For loop

Lecture 4: While loop

Lecture 5: Functions

Chapter 5: Pointers, Arrays and Structs

Lecture 1: Pointers

Lecture 2: Arrays

Lecture 3: Structs

Instructors

James Jiang
Software engineer and Instructor

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