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[FoxyBrown via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 24 June 2017 at 18:51:44 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 June 2017 at 18:16:46 UTC, FoxyBrown wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Yes indeed. LDC will output the IR when you use the 
> `-output-ll` (human readable) or `-output-bc` (binary 
> representation) compile switches.
>
>> [...]
>
> In theory, yes indeed. What may be important is that the LLVM 
> versions match (the LLVM version used to build LDC, and the 
> LLVM version of that 8051 fork). With every new LLVM version, 
> the IR may change in subtle ways...
>
>> [...]
>
> As far as I know, GCC also uses an IR (it's used for LTO).
>
> -Johan

Why, then, doesn't anything that targets llvm simply target 
everything else? D is not just for the ones listed but also for 
many other platforms? is it simply because no one has implemented 
the transformations to prove it works?