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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by hsaliak on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:40AM (#17089016)
You mean wherever there is llvm? It's a large subset, but it is still a subset.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by zeth___ on Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:30AM (#17089247)
Huh til that rust isn't compillable by gcc.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by palotasb on Thursday May 17, 2018 @06:57AM (#17090248)
That's different. The rust toolchain is compiled by rust, and it relies on LLVM which can be compiled by GCC. But LLVM does not have a backend for every architecture (or even if it does, it might require extra effort from the Rust compiler using it and they have not enabled support for _everything_). Thus not all architectures can be targets for Rust programs.
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