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		o11c 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What the hell is a target triple? LLVM didn't invent the scheme; why should we pay attention to their copy and not look at the original? The GNU Config project is the original.

IshKebab 11 months ago [–]

The article goes into this a bit. But basically because LLVM is extremely popular and used as a backend by lots of other languages, e.g. Rust.

Frankly being the originators of this deranged scheme is a good reason not to listen to GNU!

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