Re: Self-hosting LLVM/Clang?

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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 02:25:01PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 25/10/2012 19:07, Toshio Kuratomi ha scritto:
> >>> Fedora's policy is to not depend on LLVM/Clang as much as possible, but
> >>> > >would it be acceptable to use LLVM/Clang to compile newer LLVM and Clang
> >>> > >releases?
> >> > 
> >> > I think it's reasonable to allow llvm to bootstrap itself.
> >> > 
> > Does anyone know if there's any security features that gcc compiles in that
> > would be important for clang/llvm?  Are there things other than clang/llvm
> > that are using llvm?  (python had attempted to but then abandoned the idea).
> 
> Software rendering in Mesa (used by recent GNOME3 instead of fallback mode).
> 
Thanks. For me, this would be a point in favor of compiling LLVM with gcc.

-Toshio

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