[LLVMdev] Using LLVM with clang for a homebrew kernel

Tom Prince tom.prince at ualberta.net
Wed Apr 7 19:05:26 PDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 06:05:56PM -0700, Dan Gohman wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Andreas Galauner wrote:
> > 
> > shouldn't be necessary with llvm since I can just translate the bitcode
> > to any native architecture
> 
> http://llvm.org/docs/FAQ.html#platformindependent

Except that in this case there is no ABI to deal with, so it should be
possible to write code with care such that the generated bitcode is platform
independent.
  
  Tom



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