From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762091AbZEHTlv (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 15:41:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754991AbZEHTln (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 15:41:43 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:50024 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754547AbZEHTlm (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 15:41:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4A048AF4.1080205@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 15:41:40 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grozdan CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux and LLVM References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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