[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] [TECH TOPIC] Support (or move towards to) LLVM

Alexey Dobriyan adobriyan at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 18:35:30 UTC 2016


On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:04:59PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > > There's a push from certain quarters to move away from GCC to LLVM.  
> > 
> > > This might actually be an interesting topic per se.
> > 
> > Yes, indeed.
> 
> Let's make this a real proposal then ... (subject changed). I am again a 
> bit unsure about the core / tech division here.
> 
> People who should be invited: proponents of the push from the certain 
> quarters mentioned by Mark above, and ideally some LLVM folks as well.

This is a bit premature until Linux Clang patchset is empty.
As an example, alternatives do not work and IIRC VLAs won't work ever:
https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24487

Of course, compiling with Clang should be encouraged. At worst, it is
yet another static checker.


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