From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763642AbZEHT2n (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 15:28:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754281AbZEHT2d (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 15:28:33 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.218.174]:58641 "EHLO mail-bw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751678AbZEHT2c (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 15:28:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=LINfFRKxdk6zk48DSanY8bidlbyAFQyOdwIIQqJ5FkMWk3Tba0lqeChjSYU66ijgUS eTqLVBvVgyAfKzzKnl35rSXIeDqa4nSFwOvf0InsRSeEakwXSY2+Yv+tnn1rtPbL+oGi r1SG8ScPdjw9NvhqBtXtL7IhqC1mAXnG4hN1w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 21:28:32 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Linux and LLVM From: Grozdan To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, First, I'd like to say that I'm not interested in any holy wars, trolling, ego-boosters, or whatever, and basically want to ask a simple question and get the views of the Linux developers on it, at least from those who are interested in answering it or have time to do so as I know that most kernel devs are very busy :) Recently, FreeBSD has reported that it's slowly switching from GCC to LLVM/CLANG for compilers. What are the thoughts of the Linux kernel devs about this and do they things that it's a good idea to go in the same direction as FreeBSD (switching over to LLVM)? Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to this specific mailing list Thanks :)