From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Jan 15 12:44:52 2009
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58987106567C
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:44:52 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from christoph.mallon@gmx.de)
Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B1628FC1E
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:44:51 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from christoph.mallon@gmx.de)
Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2009 12:44:50 -0000
Received: from p54A3E43A.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO tron.homeunix.org)
	[84.163.228.58]
	by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 15 Jan 2009 13:44:50 +0100
X-Authenticated: #1673122
X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19t1wdvCWRtixCw5q1Afx6eAsNIqkdrh+oB5mmTOa
	a3zU+yjUQd+y4g
Message-ID: <496F2FC0.3050401@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:44:48 +0100
From: Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
References: <496F0D1D.7080505@andric.com>	<6c51dbb10901150344s409cd834p3cd8fae189e42a68@mail.gmail.com>	<9225949D37F24E01AA5FC01169A256F2@PegaPegII>
	<20090115122805.GA48561@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090115122805.GA48561@freebsd.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0
X-FuHaFi: 0.78
Cc: Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken@mthelicon.com>,
	FuLLBLaSTstorm <fullblaststorm@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it
	become	standardcompiler?)
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:44:53 -0000

Roman Divacky schrieb:
> 2) llvm uses special "bytecode" that gets compiled into native machine
> code so technically speaking "classic" assembler is not needed for llvm/clang.

This is an irrelevant detail for normal use.

> the chain with clang is: clang -> llvm bc -> native binary

This is just a kludge, because clang has no proper compiler driver, yet.