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

[Eygene Ryabinkin]

Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:28:05PM +0100, Roman Divacky wrote:
> 2) llvm uses special "bytecode" that gets compiled into native machine
> code so technically speaking "classic" assembler is not needed for llvm/clang.

Hmm, what about assembly statements inside C sources or pure assembler
sources?  May be my definition of a "classic" differs from yours, but
for we need assembler at least for the .S files.  Do you mean that some
supplementary assembler should be added to the llvm/clang suite?
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