FWIW, I've used LLVM on intel 64 bit and it has some nice features which are immediately apparent: Speed of compilation. Good understandable diagnostics on code which it finds less than optimal.
I'm no big fan of Microsoft, but I will grant them their compilers are pretty good for C/C++. It found dead and or suspicious code when I've had projects getting ported from *nix to Windows. It will be interesting to see how this can benefit Z. One general test for code is the "throw a lot of compilers at it" test. What GCC might find OK, looks dodgy to ICC or Sun's compiler. YYMV, Peter >>> John McKown <[email protected]> 4/15/2013 8:13 AM >>> Might be of interest to some. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM1MTc <quote> IBM is becoming increasingly interested in SystemZ for a variety of purposes, including the use of the Gallium3D LLVMpipe driver. As a result, IBM developers have created a new LLVM back-end for their mainframe computers. Ulrich Weigand of IBM announced the new SystemZ back-end on Sunday with this mailing list message. He wrote, "We're interested in this for the same reason we've been interested in the PowerPC back-end recently: to enable packages in upcoming enterprise Linux distributions that need LLVM support (e.g. 3D desktop support via llvmpipe)." </quote> -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
