On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Nuno Lopes wrote: >>>>> P.S.2.: why isn't LLVM deployed to replace gcc? isn't it >>>>> capable to act >>>>> as a >>>>> drop-in replacement for gcc with the gcc front-end (for now)? >>> >>> Noone tackle this question.. My question is for real: can llvm >>> already be >>> used as a drop-in replacement of gcc or not? e.g. can I already >>> rebuild my >>> gentoo system (including the kernel) with llvm? :) >> >> If the question is "can llvm-gcc do absolutely everything that gcc >> can do", the answer is no. That said, the known problems are in >> mostly obscure areas. I would expect that you should be able to >> build a huge percentage of your gentoo system with llvm-gcc, but >> probably not 100%. > > Nice! So it seems I can start lobbying the gentoo devs to include > llvm in the package tree and allow it to be used as an alternative > to gcc.
Yep, please wait until after the llvm 2.2 release though :) -Chris _______________________________________________ cfe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev
