Re: Using LLVM for build package instead gcc, why not?

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 07/24/2010 01:09 PM, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
 Jonathan MERCIERbioinfornat...@gmail.com  wrote:

 If we could swap out old C compilers for a more generic LLVM compiler
 for core components like the kernel,

 Won't happen until clang generates much better code than GCC; in the
 meanwhile it'll have to grok all GCC extensions.

The kernel also depends on a lot of GCC-specific extensions (asm syntax, 
variable and linker attributes, things that aren't 100% specified by 
language definition like data layouts/packing, etc)
In principle LLVM could replicate those things, but it probably doesn't 
right now.
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Re: Using LLVM for build package instead gcc, why not?

[Brandon Lozza]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Horst H. von Brand
vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl wrote:
 Jonathan MERCIER bioinfornat...@gmail.com wrote:
 LLVM itself could allow for much greater flexibility in programming
 language choice. It can allow for anyone to take any language and output
 it in bytecode, machine code, javavm code and so on.

Sounds like that bastard technology, CIL
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