Ask HN: Why haven't you built an LLVM converter & LLVM target for DCPU-16 yet?

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One of the guys on the irc channel is working on an LLVM backed. Theres also a guy who has a partially working C compiler and they have also come up with a "standard" calling convention. Ive personally been working on a debugger with breakpoints but its not quite ready yet. I hope to have it ready and on github tomorrow.

LLVM backend for DCPU16 is here: https://github.com/krasin/llvm-dcpu16

Note, that I'm not the guy from the irc channel, so multiple LLVM DCPU16 backends are expected :)

Very cool!

Can you maybe write a little about this? I've been wanting to write an LLVM backend for the 16bit PIC24 microcontrollers but found it hard to figure it out and get started, but maybe I can use your DCPU16 backend implementation to get started and figure out how to implement my own backend for PIC24?

Can you advise which irc channel?

#0x10c-dev on freenode

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