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tewks on May 15, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Goes Native: Offers Sneak Peak at C++ S...

"From what we see, Google is planning on enabling additional compilers and plans to support LLVM in time."

They haven't done it yet.

DrJokepu on May 16, 2010 [–]

Google provides a modified version of binutils that can create Native Client binaries. This should be enough to compile from any programming language to Native Client binaries.

As for LLVM: I believe the main challenge here is modifying the LLVM JIT compiler to produce Native Client-friendly machine code.

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