Merge Request: LLVM Code Generator for GHC

[David Peixotto]

On Feb 22, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:
>> I started to do this for you, but in doing so I found a link to another LLVM page:
>> 	 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/LlvmBackend
>> 
>> No point in having two!  Perhaps you can connect them together somehow?
> 
> Agreed, there's lots of useful stuff in that page.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Simon
> 

Thanks for pointing out the LlvmBackend page, I had totally missed it. It looks like the page contained info about the design of the backend, but had not been updated in a while. I merged what I thought was the relevant info and updated it based what I understood from David's thesis and by browsing the code. I'm sure David could improve the description and check for any glaring omissions.

I "deprecated" the LlvmBackend page in favor of Commentary/Backends/LLVM by putting a forwarding reference to the latter. Otherwise I left the current LlvmBackend page intact, but can remove it once David agrees the important info has been transferred.