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LLVM Techniques, Tips, and Best Practices Clang and Middle-End Libraries
LLVM Techniques, Tips, and Best Practices Clang and Middle-End Libraries

LLVM Techniques, Tips, and Best Practices Clang and Middle-End Libraries: Design powerful and reliable compilers using the latest libraries and tools from LLVM

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  • Explore Clang, LLVM’s middle-end and backend, in a pragmatic way
  • Develop your LLVM skillset and get to grips with a variety of common use cases
  • Engage with real-world LLVM development through various coding examples

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Every programmer or engineer, at some point in their career, works with compilers to optimize their applications. Compilers convert a high-level programming language into low-level machine-executable code. LLVM provides the infrastructure, reusable libraries, and tools needed for developers to build their own compilers. With LLVM’s extensive set of tooling, you can effectively generate code for different backends as well as optimize them. In this book, you’ll explore the LLVM compiler infrastructure and understand how to use it to solve different problems. You’ll start by looking at the structure and design philosophy of important components of LLVM and gradually move on to using Clang libraries to build tools that help you analyze high-level source code. As you advance, the book will show you how to process LLVM IR – a powerful way to transform and optimize the source program for various purposes. Equipped with this knowledge, you’ll be able to leverage LLVM and Clang to create a wide range of useful programming language tools, including compilers, interpreters, IDEs, and source code analyzers. By the end of this LLVM book, you’ll have developed the skills to create powerful tools using the LLVM framework to overcome different real-world challenges.

Who is this book for?

This book is for software engineers of all experience levels who work with LLVM. If you are an academic researcher, this book will help you learn useful LLVM skills in a short time and enable you to build your prototypes and projects quickly. Programming language enthusiasts will also find this book useful for building a new programming language with the help of LLVM.

What you will learn

  • Find out how LLVM's build system works and how to reduce the building resource
  • Get to grips with running custom testing with LLVM's LIT framework
  • Build different types of plugins and extensions for Clang
  • Customize Clang's toolchain and compiler flags
  • Write LLVM passes for the new PassManager
  • Discover how to inspect and modify LLVM IR
  • Understand how to use LLVM's profile-guided optimizations (PGO) framework
  • Create custom compiler sanitizers

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Paul Kirth May 28, 2021
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This book is a very nice introduction to development with LLVM. Many of the subtle points raised in this book can be difficult to find without extensive knowledge about the codebase. The author provides practical guidance for setting up a variety of projects within the compiler infrastructure and explains in detail the normal way compiler developers organize and modify their projects to achieve a variety of results. In particular he makes some of the more challenging aspects of starting new projects simple and straight forward. In particular, I found his descirption of the runtime components to be straight forward, when most explanations I've seen within the documentation and across various blog posts to be overly complex.LLVM is a big project, an unless you've worked across many of its various components, i.e., frontend development, analysis, instrumentation, code generation, and the runtime components getting started in a new area can be a challenge, even if you've been working on the compiler for a long time. Even though I've worked on LLVM for a long time, I'll probably reach for this as a reference for how to do a few things.While I would have liked more advanced topics to explored a bit more deeply, I look forward to the author's inevitable follow up, which will no doubt be focused on more complex compiler problems and advanced use of LLVM. Overall a must have for new LLVM developers, students, and researchers.
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Jay May 21, 2021
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If you’re looking to extend Clang, this is a wonderful resource.
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Frank May 12, 2023
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This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about LLVM and its various components. The book is well-written and structured, with clear explanations of each topic, making it easy to understand even for beginners. This book helps me a lot in my work.
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Very helpful!!!
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The book is very easy to follow and provides an introduction to many useful LLVM abstractions. It is very well written, you can see a lot of effort was put into into it, i.e. well edited. Definitely one of the best of the books I've read about compilers.
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