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phaemon on July 24, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: LLVM Intermediate Representation is better than as...

Oh, right! That makes more sense. So you have to specify the backend when you start the process? I didn't know LLVM did that.

azakai on July 25, 2013 [–]

Yes, the frontend very much knows what target you are aiming for. It greatly affects the IR that is generated.

And once you generate that IR, you can't just built it to an arbitrary target, it must be the one it was generated for.

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