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SubjectRe: Linux and LLVM
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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