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From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
To: "Shaowei Wang (wsw)" <wsw1wsw2@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: llvm/clang a tool chain or just a compiler for FreeBSD?
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:34:29PM +0800, Shaowei Wang (wsw) wrote:
> Hi, hackers!
> 
> Recently I am playing the clangbsd i386 branch and it works. I've noticed
> that clang using gcc to linking object code or even doing assembling.
> 
> clang from FreeBSD perspective will be a whole compiler tool chain or just
> another C/C++ compiler (may using system's [GNU]as and [GNU]ld) ?

llvm people are working on "mc" which is a native assembler/dissasembler.
so the only part of the toolchain missing will be linker... now we
need as/ld (and gnu driver that knows how to talk to them)

roman