About the Reviewers

Eli Bendersky has been a professional programmer for 15 years, with extensive experience in systems programming, including compilers, linkers, and debuggers. He's been a core contributor to the LLVM project since early 2012.

Logan Chien received his Master's degree in Computer Science from National Taiwan University. His research interests include compiler design, compiler optimization, and virtual machines. He is a software developer and has been working on several open source projects, including LLVM, Android, and so on. He has written several patches to fix the ARM zero-cost exception handling mechanism and enhanced the LLVM ARM integrated assembler. He was also a Software Engineer Intern at Google in 2012. At Google, he integrated the LLVM toolchain with the Android NDK.

Jia Liu started GNU/Linux-related development in his college days and has been engaged in open-source-related development jobs after graduation. He is now responsible for all software-related work at China-DSP.

He is interested in compiler technology and has been working on it for years. In his spare time, he also works on a few open source projects such as LLVM, QEMU, and GCC/Binutils.

He is employed by a Chinese processor vendor, Glarun Technology—you can just call it China-DSP. China-DSP is a high-performance DSP vendor; the core business of the company is processor design, system software, and an embedded parallel processing platform that provides independent knowledge of electricity, telecommunications, automotive, manufacturing equipment, instrumentation, and consumer electronics.

I want to thank my father and my mother; they raised me. Thanks to my girlfriend; in fact, I think she is my life's mentor. Thanks to my colleagues; we happily work with one another.

John Szakmeister holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and is a co-founder of Intelesys Corporation (www.intelesyscorp.com). John has been writing software professionally for more than 15 years and enjoys working on compilers, operating systems, sophisticated algorithms, and anything embedded. He's an avid supporter of Open Source and contributes to many projects in his free time. When he is not hacking, John works toward his black belt in Ninjutsu and enjoys reading technical books.

I would like to thank my wife, Ann, and our two boys, Matthew and Andrew, for being so patient and understanding while I was reviewing this book.