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Re:No Compiler – On LLVM, and writing software without a com... by prewett on Thursday March 03, 2016 @11:24PM (#11222035)
Seems like what he really wants is an LLVM assembler.
Re:No Compiler – On LLVM, and writing software without a com... by lmm on Friday March 04, 2016 @08:43AM (#11223617)
Yeah. LLVM IR is the most suitable representation for doing this kind of thing, but it's the one that's not compatible across LLVM versions. Maybe it would be worth defining an alternate format for the bytecode that can be read and written by external tools?