Looking into LLVM

[King InuYasha]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>wrote:

> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > LLVM 2.6 has been announced with Clang declared as production quality in
> > this release
> >
> >
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-announce/2009-October/000033.html
> >
> > Has anyone been looking into building Fedora with it to see how the
> > performance impact is?
>
> A lot of upstream software on GNU/Linux only supports GCC. Clang tries to
> support GCC extensions, but I strongly doubt it'll compile all upstream
> code
> unchanged, and upstream projects might even reject patches to fix the build
> with Clang because they only support GCC.
>
>        Kevin Kofler
>
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Also, clang's support with C++ ABI is still very broken. It's listed under
known issues. While most applications are made with C or Python, there are
still a fair number of C++ applications...
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