On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Roman Divacky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:18:46AM +0800, Shaowei Wang (wsw) wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Roman Divacky <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:34:29PM +0800, Shaowei Wang (wsw) wrote: > > > > Hi, hackers! > > > > > > > > Recently I am playing the clangbsd i386 branch and it works. I've > noticed > > > > that clang using gcc to linking object code or even doing assembling. > > > > > > > > clang from FreeBSD perspective will be a whole compiler tool chain or > > > just > > > > another C/C++ compiler (may using system's [GNU]as and [GNU]ld) ? > > > > > > llvm people are working on "mc" which is a native > assembler/dissasembler. > > > so the only part of the toolchain missing will be linker... now we > > > need as/ld (and gnu driver that knows how to talk to them) > > > > > > So what's the direction? Are we going to cut off all the GNU compiler > tool > > chains and use the llvm/clang when it's mature. > > there is no official stand on this but I guess the framework to enable > optional > usage of clang as "cc" instead of gcc might be committed "soon"... This sounds great. > > but that does not switch anything. there's quite a lot of work still to do > (on both fbsd and clang/llvm side). things have stalled a little recently > - it's summer, people got distracted, code freeze etc. but at least I am > going > to push some more work on this after the freeze/summer... > Yeah, I know. still a lot of work... > > this is my personal view not representing anything official in FreeBSD > > roman > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
