just saw someone argue that llvm cannot be used as backend for a wasm compiler that processes untrusted input, because "a maliciously crafted C, Rust or bitcode input file can cause arbitrary code to execute in LLVM" (https://llvm.org/docs/Security.html#what-is-considered-a-security-issue)
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i think i am still in a state of grief at the idea that one can't use the most advanced reusable compiler toolkit that humanity has produced on an arbitrary program that has been proven to have no unsafe behavior with respect to the language semantics...
...because compiling that code might cause the compiler itself to behave unsafely
