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About
The LLVM compiler infrastructure supports a wide range of projects, from industrial strength compilers to specialized JIT applications to small research projects.
Similarly, documentation is broken down into several high-level groupings targeted at different audiences:
LLVM Design & Overview
Several introductory papers and presentations.
- Introduction to the LLVM Compiler
- Presentation providing a users introduction to LLVM.
- Intro to LLVM
- A chapter from the book "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" that describes high-level design decisions that shaped LLVM.
- LLVM: A Compilation Framework for Lifelong Program Analysis & Transformation
- Design overview.
- LLVM: An Infrastructure for Multi-Stage Optimization
- More details (quite old now).
Documentation
Getting Started, How-tos, Developer Guides, and Tutorials.
- :doc:`GettingStartedTutorials`
- For those new to the LLVM system.
- :doc:`UserGuides`
- User guides and How-tos.
- :doc:`Reference`
- LLVM and API reference documentation.
Community
LLVM welcomes contributions of all kinds. To learn more, see the following articles:
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Reporting a security issue