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Re:C as an intermediate language (2012) by limmeau on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @09:14AM (#6057448)
Advantage of writing it in C: You can prototype an example client of your runtime in C before your code generator is working.
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Re:C as an intermediate language (2012) by lmm on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @09:25AM (#6057501)
Again, why couldn't you do that with LLVM IR?
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Re:C as an intermediate language (2012) by luikore on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @10:00AM (#6057676)
LLVM IR is designed for machine, not human, it's too verbose, and requires SSA form. A normal person can't easily reason the logic in such verbose language. Plus people are more familiar with C.
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Re:C as an intermediate language (2012) by lmm on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @11:02AM (#6058033)
Sure, but you can write your runtime test code in C - or any other language with an LLVM compiler.
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