[LLVMdev] Byte code portability (was Re: libstdc++ as bytecode, and compiling C++ to C)

[Philipp Klaus Krause]

Reid Spencer schrieb:

> Note that C and LLVM types are *not* the same things (despite the
> similar names). We are in the process of making this abundantly clear.
> The LLVM IR will soon use names like i8, i16, i32, and i64 (signless
> integer quantities of specific sizes, regardless of platform).

I had explicitly specified the size in the input code using a uint32_t
type, the resulting C code used short, which is smaller on my target
platform.

Philipp