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You guys are saying that the library which defines the runtime library is written in C for many languages. The problem is that such functions are in the libc and so the object files have to be linked against the **entire** libc. Sorry if I'm wrong but isn't it a little inefficient or hard to handle? With "hard to handle" I mean the entry point: if I use C's I/O operations,

On 23 May 2016, at 12:16, Lorenzo Laneve <lore97drk at icloud.com> wrote: > > I'm not talking about a new library instead of the libc, I'm talking about letting people create a library optimized for a specific frontend, regardless of the target. It sounded as if you were talking about a library that sits underneath such a thing. Lots of languages have their own runtime

...intended to be portable across front ends, defining the > low-level binary interfaces that compilers target. > > > > David > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20160523/ed64246d/attachment.html>