From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 22 01:18:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF75C1065670 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:18:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wsw1wsw2@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 777FC8FC0C for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:18:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wsw1wsw2@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d14so1620509and.13 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:18:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=MzcA1sMpwDgCoExawXH9wHQ/XdVhPpBytKxLAE6oAMg=; b=uJJ/FT11UgW/LjgEfwoflNKWo0enfggWgZnbmW/j4svesK6TwXrBmaMrmHKUidxI9d msL/cvpoVyAP2sNbQ3y71Vy3VRC8HRGK7+fS+Ct2tDFjTeZNJdBFYnAjaqQLnX3OocaL SvWLvfycgnmXvSmWLORD/Kpp1bXdjPcaxddnQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=FhXdbCYBz4y7+t7i/688pEG8YryBgZ+GXznEaDF/m080db4U/xASe9t+xYiL2BGNsR qO3nNyJylI+gdfYUHyXuzGQMRws+sPUOt08azQqjuQBzf0+9dN/cSOEkgAdLilt7nut9 e8+Cl/Uj8vT8X7i69xoqQeYPbsH3Gpj9BY6Ig= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.201.7 with SMTP id y7mr455159anf.121.1248225526496; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:18:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090721131735.GA18929@freebsd.org> References: <2e566b9e0907202134h5568a06bl33a8d95ac9c7f845@mail.gmail.com> <20090721131735.GA18929@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:18:46 +0800 Message-ID: <2e566b9e0907211818k1a52ef7am5c681a6f4ffc868c@mail.gmail.com> From: "Shaowei Wang (wsw)" To: Roman Divacky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: llvm/clang a tool chain or just a compiler for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:18:48 -0000 On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Roman Divacky wrote: > 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) So what's the direction? Are we going to cut off all the GNU compiler tool chains and use the llvm/clang when it's mature. > > > roman >