Hi,
I have written notes on "GCC and LLVM collaboration BOF"
presented at the Cauldron. I would be grateful if you would
review it for me.
GCC and LLVM Collaboration
Author: Renato Golin
Motivation behind collaboration is to address problems that
are intrinsic to the compilation infrastructure, which cannot be
included in any standard (language, extension or
machine-specific), and have common solutions for at least
GCC and LLVM. The BOF focuses only on technical aspects,
and as such licensing issues, personal grudges and performance
are off-topic.
Collaboration shall help to protect users from any potential
disagreements that would take place among different
implementations. It aims for standardization regarding:
- compiler flags
- attributes
- extensions
- builtins
- ASM
- Linker API
An implementation need not support all standard set of
features (for instance -Wfoo warning), emitting a
"not supported" diagnostic for that feature would be fine.
Common projects that may be collaborated on
- binutils
- glibc
- sanitizers
Sanitizers are a collaboration success story.
Thank-you,
Prathamesh
