[illumos-Discuss] LLVM / clang anyone?

Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Thu Aug 19 03:29:24 PDT 2010


Antonio Vieiro <antonio at antonioshome.net> wrote:

> As far as I know FreeBSD (and probably many other BSDs) is moving to
> LLVM/clang, and clang guys are being very supportive [1].
>
> The performance benchmarks [2,3] on compilation times are surprising.
> And the tools available are great [3] (static analyzers, debuggers,
> etc.)
>
> I was wondering if it would be a good idea to start moving to
> LLVM/clang to get rid of any possible sunstudio dependencies, if any.
>
> As a drawback SPARC is not supported (as far as I know).

See below, it seems that there is no support for Intel.


> [1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang
> [2] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11710
> [3] http://clang.llvm.org/features.html

it may be unsupported, see: 

http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#requirements

Did someone succeed to compile it on/for Solaris/x86/x64?

Jörg

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