Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standardcompiler?)

Christoph Mallon christoph.mallon at gmx.de
Thu Jan 15 04:44:53 PST 2009


Roman Divacky schrieb:
> 2) llvm uses special "bytecode" that gets compiled into native machine
> code so technically speaking "classic" assembler is not needed for llvm/clang.

This is an irrelevant detail for normal use.

> the chain with clang is: clang -> llvm bc -> native binary

This is just a kludge, because clang has no proper compiler driver, yet.


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