Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 May 2009 15:41:40 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Linux and LLVM |
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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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