On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Malcolm Wallace
I'll just note that LLVM is only platform independent to a degree. Or rather, I believe the situation is that it *is* architecture independent, but it doesn't abstract anything else besides the architecture
In particular, imagine how you might serialise a Haskell function which is an FFI binding to some external platform-specific library (e.g. Posix, Win32, Gtk+, WPF), such that you could save it on a Windows machine, copy to Linux or Mac, and start it running again.
...and FFI imports are something you definitely can't serialize, so that's one case where you either have it say "call the linked-in function with the name 'whatever'" and hope it's the same one, or just disallow it entirely.
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