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		bzbarsky on April 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla Chromeless 0.2 OK, so in that case what http://llvm.org/docs/FAQ.html#platformindependent is telling me is that it's not possible to produce said LLVM bytecode from C or C++ code in general, right? And if I read http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html correctly, some bitcode is "not supported by all targets". How is that reconciled with "100% platform and architecture independent"?

daeken on April 30, 2011 [–]

Hmm, you're quite right. A better way of putting this would be: a large subset of LLVM IR is platform independent, but not all. My mistake.

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