I had a not terrible time emitting LLVM IR text directly as part of an exploration of language backends. Here are the three parts: * Introduction: https://n

I had a not terrible time emitting LLVM IR text directly as part of an exploration of language backends. Here are the three parts: * Introduction: https://notes.eatonphil.com/compiler-basics-llvm.html * Conditionals: https://notes.eatonphil.com/compiler-basics-llvm-conditionals.html * And system calls: https://notes.eatonphil.com/compiler-basics-llvm-system-calls.html The hardest part I can remember is figuring out how LLVM IR's embedded assembly works since it's not exactly like Clang or GCC's IIRC. And the documentation was definitely confusing. I think the libraries wrapping LLVM IR are frankly harder to figure out than emitting the IR text directly.