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		stavros on Nov 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Life of an instruction in LLVM I see, thank you. I imagine the target audience is less "users of x86" and more "I just wrote a weird embedded CPU and I want compilers for it, ill just write an LLVM backend and get them for free", is that right?

eliben on Nov 28, 2012 [–]

I wouldn't say "for free", but yes, LLVM definitely contains some non-mainstream backends, and you can write your own.

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