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Watching this thread, it occurs to me that the "V" in "LLVM" is creating confusion. So far as I know, LLVM is the first project to use "virtual" to refer to the instruction set of the intermediate form. I understand why this labeling made sense (sort of), but it was unfortunate. The machine is abstract, not virtual, and the use of "virtual" here is so out of

And the code of the Linux kernel compiled by LLVM is also very arch depended, despite any loader and hw access will not work inside the standard LLVM JIT, all the MMU and low-level access stuff will make no sense on a machine other than what was enabled while compiling the kernel. E.g. you would need a whole virtualized HW architecture ala Qemu (et al.) along the JIT. Of course in theory one