8 Dec 05 notes from GCC improvement for Itanium conference call

2005-12-16 Thread Mark K. Smith
ON THE CALL: Shin-ming Liu (HP), Vladimir Makarov (Red Hat), Diego Novillo (Red Hat), Mark Smith (Gelato), Bob Kidd (UIUC), Mark Davis (Intel) A fair amount of time was spent discussing the pros and cons of LLVM vs. LTO. Keep in mind that the next Gelato conference is coming up in April 06. If

Re: 8 Dec 05 notes from GCC improvement for Itanium conference call

2005-12-16 Thread Chris Lattner
On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Mark K. Smith wrote: Additionally to the obstacles to adopt LLVM mentioned by Diego, I named usage of C++ (although it has advantages too) and patents. LLVM should be checked for usage of compiler patents. Gcc people avoided many patents especially from Microsoft.

Re: 8 Dec 05 notes from GCC improvement for Itanium conference call

2005-12-16 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:27 -0800, Chris Lattner wrote: On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Mark K. Smith wrote: Additionally to the obstacles to adopt LLVM mentioned by Diego, I named usage of C++ (although it has advantages too) and patents. LLVM should be checked for usage of compiler patents.

Re: 8 Dec 05 notes from GCC improvement for Itanium conference call

2005-12-16 Thread Chris Lattner
On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Daniel Berlin wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:27 -0800, Chris Lattner wrote: On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Mark K. Smith wrote: Additionally to the obstacles to adopt LLVM mentioned by Diego, I named usage of C++ (although it has advantages too) and patents.

Re: 8 Dec 05 notes from GCC improvement for Itanium conference call

2005-12-16 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 12:01 -0800, Chris Lattner wrote: On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Daniel Berlin wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:27 -0800, Chris Lattner wrote: On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Mark K. Smith wrote: Additionally to the obstacles to adopt LLVM mentioned by Diego, I named