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Introducing Architecture: llvm


"Introducing Architecture: llvm"
by Philipp Kaluza,
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The recent efforts to compile the archive using the LLVM compiler infrastructure have been a tremendous boon to the Debian project, as the new compiler finds new and exciting classes of bugs. In this talk, I want to discuss taking this effort one step further: packaging and distributing the generated LLVM bytecode ("bitcode") using standard Debian packages. I will introduce a number of use cases, as well as possible gotchas, of such an approach, and why "Architecture: llvm" would only be a partial architecture for the foreseeable future.