On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:22:03AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 02/16/2012 10:08 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > Not to mention that the kernel devs use gcc to compile the kernel - > > and it most certainly puts a lot of pressure on the compiler. I suspect > > unless linus drops gcc as well, we'll at a minimum need to keep it to > > build the kernel itself. > > Not quite. LLVM can be used to build the kernel The last I heard on this, it was very basic. Parts of the kernel wouldn't compile/work. Including fundamental stuff, like the module loader. I believe it still used gcc for some parts that choked llvm too. Dave -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
