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

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Jul 20 18:52:46 UTC 2016


On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 09:35:30PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:04:59PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> > 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

The main interest I'm aware of is from people working on ARM (and it
looks like there's some MIPS as well from the LLVMLinux git) so x86
specific issues might not be such a big deal.  There's definitely some
upstreaming still to do but the delta is getting smaller.
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