Cranelift Documentation

Miscellaneous documentation pages:

• Cranelift IR Cranelift IR is the data structure that most of the compiler operates on.

• Testing Cranelift This page documents Cranelift's testing frameworks.

• Cranelift compared to LLVM LLVM and Cranelift have similarities and differences.

Cranelift crate documentation:

• cranelift This is an umbrella crate that re-exports the codegen and frontend crates, to make them easier to use.

• cranelift-codegen This is the core code generator crate. It takes Cranelift IR as input and emits encoded machine instructions, along with symbolic relocations, as output.

• cranelift-codegen-meta This crate contains the meta-language utilities and descriptions used by the code generator.

• cranelift-frontend This crate provides utilities for translating code into Cranelift IR.

• cranelift-native This crate performs auto-detection of the host, allowing Cranelift to generate code optimized for the machine it's running on.

• cranelift-reader This crate translates from Cranelift IR's text format into Cranelift IR in in-memory data structures.

• cranelift-module This crate manages compiling multiple functions and data objects together.

• cranelift-object This crate provides a object-based backend for cranelift-module, which emits native object files using the object library.

• cranelift-jit This crate provides a JIT backend for cranelift-module, which emits code and data into memory.