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Message-ID: <4A048AF4.1080205@garzik.org>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 15:41:40 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Grozdan <neutrino8@...il.com>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux and LLVM
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 :)
Regards,
Jeff
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