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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:21:22 -0400
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From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:26 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote=
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> 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. =C2=A0 doing something with
> gcc helps with gcc-specific code. =C2=A0what 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.

=E2=80=94Joel Salomon