[LLVMdev] Summer of Code ideas

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 22, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Russell Wallace wrote:

> Does the C backend serve as a backend of last resort, so to speak?
> That is, can it be used to generate code for any platform for which
> there is a C compiler (which presumably would include such 16 bit
> chips as are still in use for embedded systems and not directly
> supported by LLVM)?

Generally yes, but it has some inherent limitations (no exception support, poor debugging support) as well as some current problems (no support for "weird" integer sizes.

-Chris