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From: Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GNAT with LLVM -> Java Script
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:59:20 -0700, Lucretia wrote:

> On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 10:15:51 UTC+1, Brian Drummond  wrote:
>> 
>> >> David Botton
>> > 
>> > I extracted the llvm code from another project, it's GPL. It's from a
>> > vhdl compiler iirc.
>> > 
>> > I can put it up somewhere if you like.
>> 
>> Would that be from ghdl? If so,
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghdl-updates/?source=navbar and check
>> out the trunk. There is quite a bit of active development on it, but
>> not much on the LLVM back end at the moment.
> 
> Yup.
> 
> There are also the bindings that were written and then abandoned by
> Duncan Sands, don't know if they are more advanced or not.
> 
> Luke.

That was the DragonEgg project, wasn't it? I got the impression it 
foundered on some shortcoming of LLVM for non-C languages; not certain 
which, but possibly the one regarding nested functions that Tristan has 
overcome with ghdl.

- Brian