llvm dev - Sep 2010 - [LLVMdev] Fwd: bitcode / bytecode

Anyone,

can you say what was the reason to rename bytecode? I am still interesting
in

2010/9/29 Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr>
Hi Ariel,
> As long as I know English the word "bit" is a "small
pice", . Why in set
of
> documentation ir is "bytecode", in other set or llvm source is
"bitecode"?
> What is the right? Different people call the same thing such differently.
it used to be called bytecode, now it is called bitcode, but not all
documents were updated it seems.

Ciao,

Duncan.
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Ariel
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On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Bill Wendling wrote:
> Chris rewrote the original LLVM bytecode into it's present bitcode
form. The newer code is much smaller than the previous form. That would be my
guess for why he chose to call it bitcode. Of course, he can say for himself.
:-)
The format is literally a bitstream, not a bytestream.  See this document for
more details:
http://llvm.org/docs/BitCodeFormat.html

-Chris