On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:22:03AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 02/16/2012 10:08 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> Not to mention that the kernel devs use gcc to compile the kernel -
> and it most certainly puts a lot of pressure on the compiler. I suspect
> unless linus drops gcc as well, we'll at a minimum need to keep it to
> build the kernel itself.
Not quite. LLVM can be used to build the kernel
The last I heard on this, it was very basic. Parts of the kernel
wouldn't compile/work. Including fundamental stuff, like the module loader.
I believe it still used gcc for some parts that choked llvm too.
Dave