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Here, LLVM is not used to output an independent and self-contained binary (that would hardly make sense). It's used as a backend for HiPE's native code generation[0], and it's possible that the rest of HiPE (or part of the integration itself[1]) is not quite ARM compatible (especially ARM64)

[0] http://erllvm.softlab.ntua.gr/documentation/design/pipeline/

[1] "The linearized RTL code is translated to LLVM Assembly. […] After the translation is completed, the LLVM code is printed to a file and the LLVM toolchain is invoked in order to produce an object file. […] The lib/hipe/llvm/elf64_format.erl module is responsible for extracting the binary code and all other necessary information from the object file."




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