This is the interface to the conversion pass that converts the FIR dialect (and standard dialects) of MLIR to the LLVM-IR dialect. The implementation of this bridge will be forthcoming in subsequent diffs.
The purpose of the code gen bridge is to take the IR, which will be expressed as a mix of higher-level Fortran constructs as expressed in the FIR dialect and the MLIR standard dialect, and convert the representation into the LLVM-IR dialect. At that point, the LLVM-IR dialect can be converted into LLVM IR (proper) by a standard MLIR pass.