Dmitry Andric wrote: >On 2010-09-25 21:16, Paul B Mahol wrote: >> When to expect to get rid of GNU as and other binutils tools?
>Work is progressing steadily on the clang/llvm integrated assembler, >which removes the need for an external assembler such as gas, and which >should also reduce compile times further. This is really in alpha state >right now, but Roman Divacky (who is one of the active contributors) can >probably tell more about its progress. > >Another important component is of course the linker, but I am not aware >of a similar project to replace that; excepting gold, but that is a >GPLv3 project too, unfortunately. There has been another effort underway for some time: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/elftoolchain/ Perhaps some coordination between those working on llvm in FreeBSD, and the elftoolchain project, would be helpful? b. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
