Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:55:51 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: jkoshy@freebsd.org, rdivacky@freebsd.org, dim@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clang now builds world and kernel, on i386 and amd64 Message-ID: <AANLkTimqkwwxcVVLF3ZRQs-NzGUOJv0oKeuaPon70m3t@mail.gmail.com>
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Dmitry Andric wrote: >On 2010-09-25 21:16, Paul B Mahol wrote: >> When to expect to get rid of GNU as and other binutils tools? >Work is progressing steadily on the clang/llvm integrated assembler, >which removes the need for an external assembler such as gas, and which >should also reduce compile times further. This is really in alpha state >right now, but Roman Divacky (who is one of the active contributors) can >probably tell more about its progress. > >Another important component is of course the linker, but I am not aware >of a similar project to replace that; excepting gold, but that is a >GPLv3 project too, unfortunately. There has been another effort underway for some time: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/elftoolchain/ Perhaps some coordination between those working on llvm in FreeBSD, and the elftoolchain project, would be helpful? b.
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