Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 20, 2017 11:55 UTC (Wed) by cpitrat (subscriber, #116459)
Parent article: Building the kernel with Clang

"Kroah-Hartman said that he wished there was a competitor to the Linux kernel."

Good because the Hurd is coming to take the world !

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 20, 2017 12:11 UTC (Wed) by laarmen (subscriber, #63948) [Link] (1 responses)

Sure, now that they have PulseAudio support, nothing will stand in their way!

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 20, 2017 14:20 UTC (Wed) by mageta (subscriber, #89696) [Link]

But PulseAudio is so yesterday already. Pipewire it is now.

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 20, 2017 14:37 UTC (Wed) by lkurusa (guest, #97704) [Link] (1 responses)

Something makes me think Zircon kernel (for Fuchsia by Google) may be that competitor.

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 20, 2017 15:30 UTC (Wed) by cornelio (guest, #117499) [Link]

And FreeBSD ... which already builds just fine with clang.

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 20, 2017 15:29 UTC (Wed) by rvfh (guest, #31018) [Link] (4 responses)

Or did you mean Magenta?

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 20, 2017 16:08 UTC (Wed) by lkurusa (guest, #97704) [Link] (3 responses)

The Magenta kernel was recently renamed to Zircon to stand in line with the neosilicate naming scheme.

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 20, 2017 16:53 UTC (Wed) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link] (2 responses)

Zircon appears to be in transition C -> C++.

It's kind of dumb to name the files ".cpp", instead of ".cc", though. For a long time, portable C++ code had to be in ".cpp" files because MSVC insisted on that, but Zircon doesn't need to be built with MSVC (and anyway, nowadays MSVC can compile ".cc" files).

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 21, 2017 14:34 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link] (1 responses)

Zircon?

New law: Over a long enough time frame, every IRC client's name will be re-used for something else.

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 24, 2017 7:21 UTC (Sun) by magfr (subscriber, #16052) [Link]

I think your observation is needlessly limited. It should read:
Over a long enough time frame every software project name will be re-used for something else.

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 20, 2017 21:02 UTC (Wed) by ndesaulniers (subscriber, #110768) [Link] (3 responses)

This was a typo, gkh@ said he was hoping for more competition in the toolchain space, as the kernel would benefit as a result. He did not state he was hoping for a competitor to the Linux kernel.

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 21, 2017 1:18 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> He did not state he was hoping for a competitor to the Linux kernel.

NIMBY!

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 21, 2017 5:58 UTC (Thu) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link] (1 responses)

Sorry, but you might have missed my follow-on comment which was, "I wish we had a viable competitor to the Linux kernel as well". Jake correctly quoted me here.

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 25, 2017 18:14 UTC (Mon) by leoc (guest, #39773) [Link]

Wish granted. :)