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Re:No Compiler – On LLVM, and writing software without a com... by amasad on Friday March 04, 2016 @05:28AM (#11222933)
I think she's a woman not a "chap". But anyways, you'd be relying on the IR semantics and checking to do the legwork for you. LLVM IR is a language after all.
Re:No Compiler – On LLVM, and writing software without a com... by barrkel on Friday March 04, 2016 @09:23AM (#11223833)
It is typed at a very low level. It doesn't cover interesting data structures, like hashes, vtables, closures, etc.