> Excuse me if this is a stupid question, but eh -- why would you want > to make an LLVM plugin? Aren't LLVM and GCC doing just fine as > competing compilers?
LLVM is a toolkit. There is a patched version of GCC that uses LLVM (llvm-gcc). This is particularly important for fortran and ada since clang supports only c like languages. The hope is that a plugin will be easier to maintain than llvm-gcc. > Ciao! > Steven > Cheers, -- Rafael Avila de Espindola Google | Gordon House | Barrow Street | Dublin 4 | Ireland Registered in Dublin, Ireland | Registration Number: 368047
