From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761628AbZEHTuZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 15:50:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755031AbZEHTuG (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 15:50:06 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.218.174]:61289 "EHLO mail-bw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754880AbZEHTuE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 15:50:04 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CeClb5GG1WD3k2hpcuzMoearyOEwjBf7cUTnWr/aeOFStDLhJClhZrWi37aCPMgiLm O+k3StFUy75nfD+7qHPa/qTDTkLJuvfqb65Qw/NImGSJfYyh3d8fKLmfP0QoYWb/kEma 0fRnmZgiQb0u9791wqKUAIJrtXfq/jPlTPTow= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4A048AF4.1080205@garzik.org> References: <4A048AF4.1080205@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 21:50:04 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Linux and LLVM From: Grozdan To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2009/5/8 Jeff Garzik : > Grozdan wrote: >> >> 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)? > > It is highly unlikely we will switch compilers away from gcc -- we have > enough problems just supporting multiple gcc versions. > > 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 > > 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 > > Regards, > >        Jeff > > > >