Sebastian Redl <sebastian.r...@getdesigned.at> writes: > Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> LLVM byte code is generated by LLVM, not gcc. The question here is >> whether it is desirable to permit using LLVM to generate LLVM byte >> code and to then use GCC to turn that byte code into machine code. >> (It will not be desirable to apply the exception if GCC is someday >> used to generate LLVM byte code, nor if LLVM is someday used as an >> optimization plugin to GCC). This question is hypothetical, as I >> don't know of any plans to create such a tool. > Isn't llvm-gcc such a tool? It generates LLVM byte code, and it is, I'm > pretty sure, a derivate of GCC.
I mean that there are, so far as I know, no plans to change GCC to read LLVM byte code and produce assembler code. Ian
