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by Perz1val 29 days ago
> Wouldn't it be easier to add old hardware support to LLVM/GCC instead?

No, in fact it's much, much harded. You have no idea of the scope. I have no idea of the scope. Nobody does. There are obscure machines we've never heard about and there are C compilers for them. Targeting and supporting them from modern toolchains is a fool's errand.