[LLVMdev] Re: LLVM bytecode portability

[Chris Lattner]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Mike Hearn wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:26:53 -0600, Chris Lattner wrote:
>> In the case of C/C++, basically anything that includes a
>> standard header will not be portable, at least not across systems with
>> different implementations of libc.
>
> Do you mean portable across operating systems here, or portable across
> CPU architectures? Presumably the former ...

Both and either.  If you include a standard system header, this will pull 
in system specific #defines and inline functions.  These won't work if you 
move to another system that doesn't match those.

-Chris

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