Tutorial

• Tutorial part 1: “Hello world”
• Tutorial part 2: Creating a trivial machine code function
  • Error-handling
  • Options
  • Full example
• Tutorial part 3: Loops and variables
  • Expressions: lvalues and rvalues
  • Control flow
  • Visualizing the control flow graph
  • Full example
• Tutorial part 4: Adding JIT-compilation to a toy interpreter
  • Our toy interpreter
  • Compiling to machine code
  • Setting things up
  • Populating the function
  • Verifying the control flow graph
  • Compiling the context
  • Single-stepping through the generated code
  • Examining the generated code
  • Putting it all together
  • Behind the curtain: How does our code get optimized?
• Tutorial part 5: Implementing an Ahead-of-Time compiler
  • The “brainf” language
  • Converting a brainf script to libgccjit IR
  • Compiling a context to a file
  • Other forms of ahead-of-time-compilation