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I thought the principle benefit of compiling to C was the ease of bring up on a new system.
by hosay123 11y ago
I thought the principle benefit of compiling to C was the ease of bring up on a new system.
- pcwalton 11y agoLLVM supports every system you could possibly care about, unless you're in a very niche market. If you're coding for a processor that's so niche that it supports GCC but not LLVM, then you should compile to GCC GIMPLE instead. If you're coding for a system that has neither LLVM nor GCC support, then compiling to C may be an option, but I honestly wonder if it wouldn't be easier to just repair the LLVM C backend in that case. (Note that this is so uncommon of a use case that the LLVM C backend has been unable to find a maintainer willing to keep it working for years.)