From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Derek M Jones Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] LLVM backend for Sparse Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:42:54 +0100 Message-ID: <4E5BB37E.7090905@knosof.co.uk> References: <4E5BACEB.7020502@knosof.co.uk> <4E5BB167.6050205@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.48]:20341 "EHLO mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753947Ab1H2PnE (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:43:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E5BB167.6050205@garzik.org> Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Pekka Enberg , Christopher Li , linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Josh Triplett Jeff, >> Can people allay my concern that this work is not on the slippery >> slope leading to sparse becoming the recommended compiler for >> building the kernel? > > I doubt sparse will ever have the testing, support and deployment > infrastructure of the gcc ecosystem. Exactly. Unfortunately people's desire to control their world is often stronger. -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.codingguidelines.com Source code analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk