On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:26 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@coraid.com> wrote: > On Wed Mar 25 19:22:23 EDT 2009, devon.od...@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
