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Re:C as an intermediate language (2012) by qznc on Sunday January 21, 2018 @07:49AM (#16197873)
Preprocessor directives are not powerful enough [0], imho.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16197856

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Re:C as an intermediate language (2012) by MaxBarraclough on Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:56PM (#16199638)
That isn't an attribute of using C as an IR, it's an attribute of optimising compilers.

The solution is to disable optimisation for debug builds, not to avoid C.

From the gnome.org page:

> The -g command line option tells the Vala compiler to include Vala source code line information in the compiled binary

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