On 07/24/2010 01:09 PM, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > Jonathan MERCIER<bioinfornatics@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If we could swap out old C compilers for a more generic LLVM compiler >> for core components like the kernel, > > Won't happen until clang generates much better code than GCC; in the > meanwhile it'll have to grok all GCC extensions. The kernel also depends on a lot of GCC-specific extensions (asm syntax, variable and linker attributes, things that aren't 100% specified by language definition like data layouts/packing, etc) In principle LLVM could replicate those things, but it probably doesn't right now. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
