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I'm not sure what value you're suggesting rustc would be able to bring there. If you want that in LLVM you can try your luck with the "resurrected" C backend: https://github.com/JuliaComputingOSS/llvm-cbe

I don't understand why I see so many requests for LLVM-based languages to change around their backend or IR, that seems to be a huge amount of work for comparatively little benefit. The correct thing to do there is to just add support for those to LLVM.




I don't want to "try my luck", I want to build software.

GCC, and various proprietary vendor compilers, are often the only C compilers available on some hardware; and llvm doesn't have a mature, stable and supported backend for them, either.




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