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    Department of Computing

    CS 354: Compiler Construction


    Class: BSCS-7A
    Lab [12] LLVM and Code Generation

    Date: 05th Jan, 2021


    Time: Tuesday (09:00 – 12:00)
    Instructor: Dr Adnan Rashid

    Lab Instructor: M . Danyal Sadiq


    Lab [12]: LLVM and Code Generation

    Introduction

    Low Level Virtual Machine – LLVM is a modern module based compiler infrastructure which is
    written in C++ (mainly) and freely available at (www.llvm.org). It was started in 2000 at
    University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign by Chris Lattner and Vikram Adve. LLVM is an
    unlimited register machine. Register values can only be set once and are typed (meaning they
    have a specific type).

    Objectives

    1. Understand LLVM compilation/installation procedure and LLVM-IR.

    Tools/Software Requirement

    1. LLVM: An open source framework for compiler construction (www.llvm.org)

    Description

    From its beginning in December 2000, LLVM was designed as a set of reusable libraries with
    well-defined interfaces [1]. At the time, open source programming language implementations
    were designed as special-purpose tools which usually had monolithic executables. For example,
    it was very difficult to reuse the parser from a static compiler (e.g., GCC) for doing static
    analysis or refactoring. While scripting languages often provided a way to embed their runtime
    and interpreter into larger applications, this runtime was a single monolithic lump of code that
    was included or excluded. There was no way to reuse pieces, and very little sharing across
    language implementation projects.

    Over the last ten years, LLVM has substantially altered this landscape. LLVM is now used as a
    common infrastructure to implement a broad variety of statically and runtime compiled
    languages (e.g., the family of languages supported by GCC, Java, .NET, Python, Ruby,
    Scheme, Haskell, D, as well as countless lesser known languages). It has also replaced a broad
    variety of special purpose compilers, such as the runtime specialization engine in Apple's
    OpenGL stack and the image processing library in Adobe's After Effects product. Finally LLVM
    has also been used to create a broad variety of new products, perhaps the best known of which
    is the OpenCL GPU programming language and runtime.

    More details at: https://llvm.org/


    Lab Tasks

    1. Download LLVM 5.0.1 from http://releases.llvm.org/download.html#5.0.1 (or later)


    a. Extract it using the following command
    tar –xvJf llvm-5.0.1.src.tar.xz
    b. Verify that the C Front-end (Clang) is installed on your VM. Otherwise install it.
    c. Configure the LLVM 5.0.1 for compilation. What commands did you use?
    (Hint: You can take help from ./configure --help)
    d. Compile LLVM 5.0.1 and Install it. What commands were used?
    e. In order to use LLVM, do you need to modify your PATH environment variable? If
    yes, then how did you accomplish this task?
    2. Create a C source file named test1.c with the following code:

    #include <stdio.h>
    int main( )
    {
    printf ("Hi, my LLVM + CLANG!\n");
    }

    a. Compile it using Clang (clang -o test1 test1.c). This will produce native
    code, then run it (./test1). To generate LLVM IR, in assembly form, run clang
    test1.c -S -emit-llvm which will produce test1.ll.
    b. Now run the same command but with optimization flag (-O3) and compare the
    output. Compile other input programs, with and with-out optimization, for
    example:

    int main ()
    {
    int x=0;
    return x++;
    }

    Deliverables

    You are required to upload a PDF/Word document with your answers with screenshots, using
    the link created on LMS.

    References:
    [1] Chris Lattner and Vikram Adve: "LLVM: A Compilation Framework for Lifelong Program
    Analysis & Transformation". Proc. 2004 International Symposium on Code Generation and
    Optimization (CGO'04), Mar 2004.

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