Introducing Architecture: llvm

The recent efforts to compile the archive using the LLVM compiler infrastructure have been a tremendous boon to the Debian project, as the new compiler finds new and exciting classes of bugs.

In this talk, I want to discuss taking this effort one step further: packaging and distributing the generated LLVM bytecode ("bitcode") using standard Debian packages.

I will introduce a number of use cases, as well as possible gotchas, of such an approach, and why "Architecture: llvm" would only be a partial architecture for the foreseeable future.