LLVM frontend for WASM

[KOLANICH]

Project description

There are some tools converting LLVM IR/bitcode into WASM modules. But I have not found any doing the inverse task: converting WASM modules into LLVM IR/bitcode, though the idea seems to be obvious.

There is some demand on these tools. Some even develop VMs interpreting WASM code, but it is loss of performance.

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[Kreijstal]

I was thinking, what about an online wasm compiler / repl, I mean you are already on the browser, so why not!

[KOLANICH]

I was thinking, what about an online wasm compiler / repl, I mean you are already on the browser, so why not!

Completely different task.

Online compiler proposed in #160 is just a CLang + LLVM + emscripten built into wasm + some GUI for that.

Here other thing is proposed.

I mean you are already on the browser

Wasm modules are not tied to browser and can be used separately.

[remram44]

So you want a disassembler for WASM bytecode into LLVM IR?

That seems to exist for x86 so why not indeed.

[trusktr]

This would be interesting! It could be a way to compile WebAssembly to native.

[Jacarte]

A nice work on the topic https://github.com/gwsystems/aWsm :)