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Given that Apple controls that format, even if it were to continue to change in the future, that would not necessarily be an unsurmountable obstacle.


All of LLVM is open source, and the format isn't quite so fluid as GP makes it sound. It should be relatively trivial for one versed in the LLVM codebase to grok the current features of the bitcode.

That said, as long as you keep an indication of the LLVM version that your bitcode was generated with, I really don't see a problem with fluid bitcode specs.




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