Re: Linux and LLVM

[Grozdan <neutrino8@gmail.com>]

2009/5/8 Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>:
> Grozdan wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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)?
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> It is highly unlikely we will switch compilers away from gcc -- we have
> enough problems just supporting multiple gcc versions.
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> That said, you could join the effort to get LLVM to compile under the
> kernel.  Here is a meta-bug for that:
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4068
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> It is a moot question until LLVM can actually build a bootable kernel :)

Thanks for the quick answer! I was not aware that currently there's
lots of work until CLANG can compile a bootable Linux kernel. Thanks
for the link too. I'll dig through it

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> Regards,
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>        Jeff
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