<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><div>On May 17, 2014, at 9:03 PM, Nick Lewycky <<a href="mailto:nicholas@mxc.ca">nicholas@mxc.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br>I don’t see why. Your more restrictive representation is just going to<br>arbitrarily limit the ability of frontends and backends to achieve things<br>that your representation doesn’t realize are possible. LLVM IR should<br>not be in the business of knowing what common object file formats<br>are capable of expressing.<br></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">On the contrary, that is precisely the plan (my plan). Why shouldn't it?</span></blockquote></div><br><div>Because LLVM is not (just) a C compiler. LLVM is used in lots of applications, particularly ones involving online compilation, that have no meaningful concept of a relocation, or have very different ideas of what the loader. Baking in more of the static C compilation model penalizes such use cases.</div><div><br></div><div>—Owen</div></body></html>