From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] request for more GSoC project suggestions
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:21:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7871fcf50903260721j2fb4b398qd93aca402a8e85b8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61d3134867e6e68277b68ed7a6eda4cb@coraid.com>
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:26 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> On Wed Mar 25 19:22:23 EDT 2009, devon.odell@gmail.com wrote:
>> Another student I spoke to on IRC spoke of the possibility of
>> bootstrapping LLVM for Plan 9 on Linux and getting it to run natively.
>> That would give us a whole bunch of different compilers.
>
> at the risk of being called stupid twice in one day, i have to say
> i don't see what the payoff would be. doing something with
> gcc helps with gcc-specific code. what does llvm give us?
Current versions of LLVM use GCC's front-end for C & C++, so porting
the back-end to Plan 9 effectively gives us GCC. When clang is
completed, LLVM will be GCC-compatible without including GCC code.
—Joel Salomon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-26 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-25 15:16 Charles Forsyth
2009-03-25 15:06 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 5:19 ` lucio
2009-03-26 13:18 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 15:03 ` lucio
2009-03-26 15:17 ` lucio
2009-03-25 19:57 ` Paul Lalonde
2009-03-25 20:12 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-25 20:19 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-25 20:28 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-25 20:38 ` Chris Brannon
2009-03-26 0:47 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 1:10 ` Chris Brannon
2009-03-26 2:02 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-03-25 20:39 ` Paul Lalonde
2009-03-25 21:12 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-03-26 1:11 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-03-26 1:51 ` Paul Lalonde
2009-03-26 2:01 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-03-26 2:01 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-25 20:40 ` James Tomaschke
2009-03-25 22:48 ` Paul Lalonde
2009-03-25 23:20 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-25 23:26 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 2:03 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 4:43 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 2:05 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-03-26 14:21 ` Joel C. Salomon [this message]
2009-03-26 15:09 ` Juan M. Mendez
2009-03-26 15:18 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 16:23 ` [9fans] LLVM & Exceptions (Was re. request for more GSoC project suggestions) Joel C. Salomon
2009-03-26 0:09 ` [9fans] request for more GSoC project suggestions Federico G. Benavento
2009-03-26 1:54 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 10:41 ` Charles Forsyth
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