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Date:      Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:18:46 +0800
From:      "Shaowei Wang (wsw)" <wsw1wsw2@gmail.com>
To:        Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: llvm/clang a tool chain or just a compiler for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <2e566b9e0907211818k1a52ef7am5c681a6f4ffc868c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090721131735.GA18929@freebsd.org>
References:  <2e566b9e0907202134h5568a06bl33a8d95ac9c7f845@mail.gmail.com> <20090721131735.GA18929@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> 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
>



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