From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27E2794C for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:05:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B7656172 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 19:04:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Mark Brown In-Reply-To: <20160720155319.GG6509@sirena.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <87inw1skws.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20160719173120.GE30372@sirena.org.uk> <20160720155319.GG6509@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] [TECH TOPIC] Support (or move towards to) LLVM List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Mark Brown wrote: > > > There's a push from certain quarters to move away from GCC to LLVM. > > > This might actually be an interesting topic per se. > > Yes, indeed. Let's make this a real proposal then ... (subject changed). I am again a bit unsure about the core / tech division here. People who should be invited: proponents of the push from the certain quarters mentioned by Mark above, and ideally some LLVM folks as well. I've never actually used llvm to compile the kernel (which makes me rather poor contributor should any such discussion happen), but I've been on the "receiving side", debugging a crash that turned out to be llvm messing up with IF in a way that interfers with local_irq_save(), and also suffered from the followup frustration when I found out that this has been reported to llvm folks ages ago, and they haven't bothered to fix it (it's now at least worked around, in a very sub-optimal way (lahf/sahf)). Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs