What do you get with eBook?

Instant access to your Digital eBook purchase

Download this book in EPUB and PDF formats

Access this title in our online reader with advanced features

DRM FREE - Read whenever, wherever and however you want

AI Assistant (beta) to help accelerate your learning

Key benefits

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

Description

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

What do you get with eBook?

Instant access to your Digital eBook purchase

Download this book in EPUB and PDF formats

Access this title in our online reader with advanced features

DRM FREE - Read whenever, wherever and however you want

AI Assistant (beta) to help accelerate your learning

Frequently bought together

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

$48.99

$54.99

$54.99

Total $ 158.97

FAQs

How do I buy and download an eBook?

Where there is an eBook version of a title available, you can buy it from the book details for that title. Add either the standalone eBook or the eBook and print book bundle to your shopping cart. Your eBook will show in your cart as a product on its own. After completing checkout and payment in the normal way, you will receive your receipt on the screen containing a link to a personalised PDF download file. This link will remain active for 30 days. You can download backup copies of the file by logging in to your account at any time.

If you already have Adobe reader installed, then clicking on the link will download and open the PDF file directly. If you don't, then save the PDF file on your machine and download the Reader to view it.

Please Note: Packt eBooks are non-returnable and non-refundable.

Packt eBook and Licensing When you buy an eBook from Packt Publishing, completing your purchase means you accept the terms of our licence agreement. Please read the full text of the agreement. In it we have tried to balance the need for the ebook to be usable for you the reader with our needs to protect the rights of us as Publishers and of our authors. In summary, the agreement says:

You may make copies of your eBook for your own use onto any machine
You may not pass copies of the eBook on to anyone else

How can I make a purchase on your website?

If you want to purchase a video course, eBook or Bundle (Print+eBook) please follow below steps:

Register on our website using your email address and the password.
Search for the title by name or ISBN using the search option.
Select the title you want to purchase.
Choose the format you wish to purchase the title in; if you order the Print Book, you get a free eBook copy of the same title.
Proceed with the checkout process (payment to be made using Credit Card, Debit Cart, or PayPal)

Where can I access support around an eBook?

If you experience a problem with using or installing Adobe Reader, the contact Adobe directly.
To view the errata for the book, see www.packtpub.com/support and view the pages for the title you have.
To view your account details or to download a new copy of the book go to www.packtpub.com/account
To contact us directly if a problem is not resolved, use www.packtpub.com/contact-us

What eBook formats do Packt support?

Our eBooks are currently available in a variety of formats such as PDF and ePubs. In the future, this may well change with trends and development in technology, but please note that our PDFs are not Adobe eBook Reader format, which has greater restrictions on security.

You will need to use Adobe Reader v9 or later in order to read Packt's PDF eBooks.

What are the benefits of eBooks?

You can get the information you need immediately
You can easily take them with you on a laptop
You can download them an unlimited number of times
You can print them out
They are copy-paste enabled
They are searchable
There is no password protection
They are lower price than print
They save resources and space

What is an eBook?

Packt eBooks are a complete electronic version of the print edition, available in PDF and ePub formats. Every piece of content down to the page numbering is the same. Because we save the costs of printing and shipping the book to you, we are able to offer eBooks at a lower cost than print editions.

When you have purchased an eBook, simply login to your account and click on the link in Your Download Area. We recommend you saving the file to your hard drive before opening it.

For optimal viewing of our eBooks, we recommend you download and install the free Adobe Reader version 9.

Filter reviews by

All

Amazon verified reviews

Paul Kirth May 28, 2021

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.

Amazon Verified review

Jay May 21, 2021

If you’re looking to extend Clang, this is a wonderful resource.

Frank May 12, 2023

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.

Mei Apr 28, 2021

Very helpful!!!

Amazon Customer Aug 21, 2023

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.

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

What do you get with eBook?

Key benefits

Description

Who is this book for?

What you will learn

Product Details

What do you get with eBook?

Product Details

Frequently bought together

Recommendations for you

Customer reviews

Filter reviews by

People who bought this also bought

About the author

FAQs

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

What do you get with eBook?

Contact Details

Billing Address

Key benefits

Description

Who is this book for?

What you will learn

Product Details

What do you get with eBook?

Contact Details

Billing Address

Product Details

Packt Subscriptions

Frequently bought together

Recommendations for you

Customer reviews

Filter reviews by

People who bought this also bought

About the author

FAQs