Ok, thanks, that makes sense. QBE looks interesting, but I'm missing 32 bit support. So currently I'm trying to reuse the TCC backend, which is far from trivial.
There seems to have been a little progress on that recently, I saw someone working on a ppc 32bit port here: https://bsd.network/@tobhe/111756322928965195 and I also saw somewhere someone working on a 68000 port, but I don't remember where.
I'd like an arm 32bit port, which might be a bit easier with this ppc port as an example of 32bit qbe. It'd be nice to try run some hare programs on a gameboy advance :)
Thanks for the hint. The x86 is likely more work and complicated than the existing AMD64. But meanwhile I made significant progress with my TCC backend; currently I design an intermediate representation and binary file format; will publish something on Github in a few weeks.
