Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:51:38 +0200 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org> To: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Clang: now available from a SVN server near you! Message-ID: <20090610085138.GA7459@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <DF7D22CF-94C1-4B27-A216-E4AD5FEBCA53@cederstrand.dk> References: <20090604093831.GE48776@hoeg.nl> <31BD4D08-6558-46FF-9B93-CF8249AAC461@cederstrand.dk> <20090604123801.GA34971@freebsd.org> <DF7D22CF-94C1-4B27-A216-E4AD5FEBCA53@cederstrand.dk>
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On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:45:44AM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Hi Roman > > Den 04/06/2009 kl. 14.38 skrev Roman Divacky: > > > >you could use llvm-ld (see the wiki for instructions how to do it). > >there's also some > >effort to make gnu ld usable with llvm LTO and I guess the patch > >could be backported > >to our ld. I guess > > As I understand the reply from Eli Friedman[1] this is not possible > without at least some hacking. > > The LTO work in GNU ld[2] is under GPLv3[3], as is gold[4], which > makes backporting patches a sticky issue. we can ask the person who did the gnu ld work to relicense the one patch under gplv2
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