[illumos-Discuss] LLVM / clang anyone?

[Garrett D'Amore]

I'm very supportive any effort to support new compilers.  However, we
will not be adding new "shadow" compilers, and we will need to retain
support for the compilers we already have.  I want to enable choice,
without forcing pain and suffering on other people.

	- Garrett

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 12:05 +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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).
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> Antonio
> 
> [1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang
> [2] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11710
> [3] http://clang.llvm.org/features.html
> 
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