Perhaps this an LLVM question; but what's the fact...
# kotlin-natived
darkmoon_uk
03/30/2020, 4:45 AMPerhaps this an LLVM question; but what's the factor that limits Kotlin/Native to its list of supported targets? For example; there is an official LLVM 'Back-end' for the popular Espresiff ESP8266 chips, a non-ARM platform.
My (maybe false) assumption is that LLVM's Intermediate Representation (IR) provides a generalised mechanism for marrying language parsing front-ends with binary generating back-ends.
So if Kotlin/Native provides a compliant LLVM front-end (does it?) then what's missing to allow us to compile Kotlin for ESP8266 chips?
Could it be this is theoretically possible today, just not 'supported'?
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Markus Böck
03/30/2020, 6:41 AMTo have a precis answer one would probably need to know about K/N internal but if I had to guess it's mostly about runtime support as well as probably things like calling convention for the C interop
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