[LLVMdev] Query regarding backend of Clang (original) (raw)

Duncan P. N. Exon Smith dexonsmith at apple.com
Sun Oct 19 14:29:33 PDT 2014

On 2014 Oct 18, at 14:13, Nitin Mukesh Tiwari <nmtiwari at icloud.com> wrote:

Dear LLVM Team I am looking for a llvm beasede compiler nad dont want to use GCC or any other based compiler. I have installed the clang++ and LLVM by following instruction from page http://clang.llvm.org/getstarted.html I want to use LLVM based compiler for making some changes in ANSI C compiler for a project. My goal is to use LLVM compiler so that compilation process becomes fast. Could please tell me that do I need to use some other compiler or by following the above mentioned instruction I have installed LLVM based compiler. As Clang++ is just a front end and uses other compiler in backend. So is it a LLVM based compiler or GCC based compiler? And is ther any way that I can check which compiler Clang++ is using? Thanks and Regards

Clang is a frontend for the LLVM compiler. For more information, check out the homepage 1, but I think you've already installed what you're looking for.

Further questions about clang should probably go to cfe-dev 2 (if you have questions about "hacking on clang") or cfe-users 3 (if you have questions about "using clang").

HTH, Duncan

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