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Re: LLVM as a gcc plugin?

From: Rafael Espindola <espindola at google dot com>
To: Steven Bosscher <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>
Cc: Chris Lattner <clattner at apple dot com>, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:33:48 +0100
Subject: Re: LLVM as a gcc plugin?
References: <5787cf470906032330r5887976r7ab34c5912c0052@mail.gmail.com> <62149AC6-E31E-4095-98E8-FAD5416DED4A@apple.com> <38a0d8450906040314j143c6537y69a0547b3ee542de@mail.gmail.com> <571f6b510906040320t1af094fcqc562209ec212226d@mail.gmail.com>

> Excuse me if this is a stupid question, but eh -- why would you want
> to make an LLVM plugin? ÂAren't LLVM and GCC doing just fine as
> competing compilers?

LLVM is a toolkit. There is a patched version of GCC that uses LLVM
(llvm-gcc). This is particularly important for fortran and ada since
clang supports only c like languages.

The hope is that a plugin will be easier to maintain than llvm-gcc.

> Ciao!
> Steven
>

Cheers,
-- 
Rafael Avila de Espindola

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References:
- LLVM as a gcc plugin?
  - From: Uros Bizjak
- Re: LLVM as a gcc plugin?
  - From: Chris Lattner
- Re: LLVM as a gcc plugin?
  - From: Rafael Espindola
- Re: LLVM as a gcc plugin?
  - From: Steven Bosscher

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