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A Gentle Introduction to LLVM IR (mcyoung.xyz)
47 points by scraptor on Aug 1, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Picolisp is written on raw llvm-ir.

https://git.envs.net/mpech/pil21


what does this mean? "In LLVM IR, much like in Rust but unlike in C/C++, individual loads and stores are volatile (i.e., have compiler-invisible side-effects)."


In C and C++, volatile is a qualifier for a type. You then use that type like any other.

In Rust, there is no volatile types. There are two functions, read_volatile and write_volatile, on pointers.

Rust’s API is basically identical to the intrinsics, whereas C and C++‘s are not. This plays out with stuff like the drama around volatile compound operators being deprecated.


Great article.

I'd like to see more of stuff like this




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