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Thanks! I happen to agree with with Dan Gohman (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/43...), but I'm not sure where Chris Lattner ended up on this.

Much is possible in software, so perhaps some day, or under some transformation, LLVM bitcode would be suitable as a stable long-term object file format.

There's still a point here: PNaCl is pushing a stone up a very tall hill. ANDF and other Universal Object formats go back to the 70s if not earlier. It's very difficult to standardize such things, never mind Pepper.




FWIW, the aim for LLVM is to avoid breaking the bitcode format now 3.0 has shipped — not that it's platform independent or anything else yet.




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