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improve/fix "codegen" definition

Open tshepang opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

In the glossary, codegen is define so

the code to translate MIR into LLVM IR.

I, instead, understood it as steps that actually generates machine code (which llvm is responsible for).

tshepang avatar Mar 28 '20 12:03 tshepang

Hmm... yes, your definition seems more correct, though there is not a hard line, I guess.

mark-i-m avatar Mar 28 '20 14:03 mark-i-m