Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Bryce Lelbach has announced that he has managed to build and boot a (mostly) working kernel using the LLVM-based Clang compiler. It seems that there are a lot of problems remaining, though, and he had to use a couple of GCC-compiled pieces to get the system to boot. " SELinux, Posix ACLs, IPSec, eCrypt, anything that uses the crypto API - None of these will compile, due to either an ICE or variable-length arrays in structures (don't remember which, it's in my notes somewhere). If it's variable-length arrays or another intentionally unsupported GNUtension, I'm hoping it's just used in some isolated implementation detail (or details), and not a fundamental part of the crypto API (honestly just haven't had a chance to dive into the crypto source yet)."

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