[LLVMdev] glibc 2.10 featuring new elf trick

[David Sehr]

Nit: you can't use the same bitcode file for both 32 and 64 bit mode x86
compilations either, I presume.

Cheers,

David

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Devang Patel <dpatel at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Apr 19, 2009, at 3:31 AM, Anton Korobeynikov wrote:
>
> > Hello, Michael
> >
> >> IMO, fat binaries should go away and be replaced by LLVM bitcode,
> >> with
> >> code generation performed by the OS at load time. This would have
> >> many
> >> advantages: the compatibility with all current and future
> >> architectures would be guaranteed,
> > Unfortunately no, the IR obtained from languages like C, C++, etc is
> > not target neutral.
>
> But LLVM IR is neutral* for the various processors of a given
> processor family for the given target (e.g.Intel core processors with
> and without SSE 4.1)
>
> -
> Devang
>
> [ * = If processor specific intrinsics are not used ]
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