llvm/clang a tool chain or just a compiler for FreeBSD?

[Shaowei Wang (wsw)]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:34:29PM +0800, Shaowei Wang (wsw) wrote:
> > Hi, hackers!
> >
> > Recently I am playing the clangbsd i386 branch and it works. I've noticed
> > that clang using gcc to linking object code or even doing assembling.
> >
> > clang from FreeBSD perspective will be a whole compiler tool chain or
> just
> > another C/C++ compiler (may using system's [GNU]as and [GNU]ld) ?
>
> llvm people are working on "mc" which is a native assembler/dissasembler.
> so the only part of the toolchain missing will be linker... now we
> need as/ld (and gnu driver that knows how to talk to them)


So what's the direction? Are we going to cut off all the GNU compiler tool
chains and use the llvm/clang when it's mature.



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