On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:47:28AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
> > Since llvm-gcc uses the gcc front end this isn't surprising. 
> 
> Considering that perl 5 doesn't work with XS modules when compiled with
> llvm-gcc, I think it's at least worth to mention ;-)

I didn't say it wasn't a usefull exercise for finding bugs in llvm-gcc. ;)

> > In fact, if
> > parrot failed to build with that compiler it would only tell us that there 
> > is
> > something wrong with their intergration work.  IMHO it would be more
> > interesting to test with clang which might actually pick up some sort of
> > portability issue (or just bugs in clang).
> 
> Go right ahead ;-)

It's not going to be me but if someone else is interested you can fetch the
code from here:

http://clang.llvm.org/

It's rumored that this will be the compiler shipped with the next major version 
of Xcode, so the OSX folks might want to give this a try.

-J

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