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> Okay, If C is "not close to the process", what's closer?

LLVM IR is closer. Still higher level than Assembly

The problem is thus:

char a,b,c; c = a+b;

Could not be more different between x86 and ARM



> LLVM IR is closer. Still higher level than Assembly

So your reasoning for repeating the once-fashionable statement is because "an intermediate representation that no human codes in is closer than the source code"?




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