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Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Posted Oct 26, 2010 5:28 UTC (Tue) by wash (guest, #70825)
In reply to: Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel by error27
Parent article: Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

That would be if we didn't have support for local labels. As of ten minutes ago, we do :).

- Bryce Lelbach


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Clang builds a working 2.6.36 Kernel

Posted Oct 28, 2010 16:11 UTC (Thu) by mingo (subscriber, #31122) [Link]

Btw, a few days ago we found out that the jump label support code is broken in GCC, it messes up the stack offset which crashes the kernel.

So LLVM might be the first compiler on the planet to have working GCC jump label support ;-)

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