llvm/clang a tool chain or just a compiler for FreeBSD?

[Shaowei Wang (wsw)]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:18:46AM +0800, Shaowei Wang (wsw) wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Roman Divacky <rdivacky at 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.
>
> there is no official stand on this but I guess the framework to enable
> optional
> usage of clang as "cc" instead of gcc might be committed "soon"...

This sounds great.

>
> but that does not switch anything. there's quite a lot of work still to do
> (on both fbsd and clang/llvm side). things have stalled a little recently
> - it's summer, people got distracted, code freeze etc. but at least I am
> going
> to push some more work on this after the freeze/summer...
>
Yeah, I know. still a lot of work...

>
> this is my personal view not representing anything official in FreeBSD
>
> roman
>