[LLVMdev] Architecture Dependency of LLVM bitcode (was Re: compile linux kernel)

Jonathan S. Shapiro
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:21:23 -0000

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 15:03 -0400, Sherief N. Farouk
wrote:
> Why not add types with explicit endianess?...

The issues with architecture dependency are far broader than byte order.
LLVM in its current form is simply not intended to be machine neutral.
Quite the contrary: it is heavily machine dependent!