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[David Nadlinger]

On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 11:39:28 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Am 15.09.2013 08:54, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
>> But I could swear I've seen a "LLVM IR -> C" before...
>>
>
> I'm pretty sure that IR -> C just outputs C code that feeds 
> LLVM with the original IR and not an equivalent of the IR 
> itself. So it's usually no more useful than directly compiling 
> to machine code for the target architecture.

That's the C++ backend you are talking about.

The C backend - which was defunct some time ago, no idea about 
its current state - actually generated a C code equivalent of the 
IR (with some limitations).

David