who was it that had the blog post diving deep into LLVM's transformers in regards to "normalizing" certain illegal operands? Like, say an architecture only supports a certain instruction on 32 bit integers but if it's a 16 bit integer it won't work so your 16 bit integer is padded to be a 32 bit integer for the instruction to operate
I forget what the exact thing is called, also searching up "LLVM illegal instruction" just brings up a bunch of help threads in regards to people compiling code with syntax errors
forgets the username of the one mutual who would have this offhand
@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run didn't you link this article
@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run sorry i'm asking to see it specifically because a friend of mine asked me "building a compiler can't be that hard can it" and i wanted to link them to this super specific subsystem within LLVM because I know that'd be enough to make them question their choice of project
@puppygirlhornypost2 @hipsterelectron some Google fu later. Did you mean Min-Yih Hsu blog post from the fifteenth of May "Legalizations in LLWM Backend"?
@ekg @puppygirlhornypost2 YES!!!! AMAZING POST