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Distributions looking at LLVM

Distributions looking at LLVM

Posted Mar 25, 2012 22:53 UTC (Sun) by PaXTeam (subscriber, #24616)
In reply to: Distributions looking at LLVM by rgmoore
Parent article: Distributions looking at LLVM

> But if your main interest is in improving the compiler so it can compile anything that GCC can[...]

clang developers do not want to achieve this, see http://clang.llvm.org/compatibility.html and http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html for some of the details (linux gets bitten by VLAs in structures and nested functions, among others).


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