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Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 30, 2009 7:27 UTC (Thu) by DarthCthulhu (guest, #50384)
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I'm surprised no one mentioned Clang (http://clang.llvm.org/), the LLVM-inspired C-language compiler.

It compiles C code right now and some C++. It would need a bit more work to compile Linux kernel code, due to all the GCC cruft caked in it, but if the kernel guys made an effort, it could probably be done in a few release cycles.


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Quotes of the week

Posted May 1, 2009 2:43 UTC (Fri) by jgarzik (subscriber, #8364) [Link]

This meta-bug shows what is needed to compile the kernel under clang+LLVM.

The LLVM guys have already closed a bunch of kernel-related bugs (Bugzilla: "show dependency tree" -> "show resolved" button).

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