Krister Walfridsson’s old blog

I stumbled on the M/o/Vfuscator compiler that only use mov instructions in the generated code 1 using ideas from the " mov is Turi...

The previous post talked about the background and the GCC GIMPLE IR. This post continues with a look at the format of match.pd . The ma...

I have cleaned up the API in the spirv-tools module I wrote about in a previous blog post . There is currently functionality for Reading...

I wanted to run the GCC test-suite on Adapteva ’s Epiphany architecture , but I could not find much useful information on how to do it. Thi...

SPIR-V is a binary IL that is not meant to be written by humans. But there are many cases where it is desirable to write/modify IL, so I ha...

I watched a video from CppCon 2014 where the speaker said during Q&A [...] if you are on Linux, you know, malloc is never going to re...

The cartoon understanding of compiler design is that compilers consist of three parts: front end — handling everything that is language s...

ESSL permits optimizations that may change the value of floating point expressions ( lowp and mediump precision change , reassociation of...