• astrus (6/6) Nov 09 2022 Quick question since I'm new here and haven't really found
• David Nadlinger (3/4) Nov 09 2022 Yes, from the DMD AST directly to LLVM IR, and then further to whatever ...

astrus <jannes.lox gmail.com> writes:

Quick question since I'm new here and haven't really found 
anything on the topic yet:

Does LDC compile source code directly to LLVM IR to machine code, 
or are there other intermediate representations involved? I saw 
that LDC gives the options to output both MLIR and Assembly, but 
I haven't seen it mentioned otherwise.

David Nadlinger <code klickverbot.at> writes:

On 9 Nov 2022, at 18:30, astrus via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
 Does LDC compile source code directly to LLVM IR to machine code

Yes, from the DMD AST directly to LLVM IR, and then further to whatever desired
output format (LLVM IR, assembly, object files, …) in-process using the
standard LLVM tools.

 — David