GCC IMA & general future proposal

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Wed Oct 27 19:13:00 GMT 2004


On 27/10/2004, at 11:45 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:

>
> Geoff Keating wrote:
>> I've put a quick draft of my idea of what the future of GCC should 
>> look
>> like at
>> <http://www.geoffk.org/gcc/future/gccfuture.html>
>>
>> It's short, but has a complicated diagram. It is intended for 
>> discussion
>> at the meeting in a few hours.
>
> Has anyone seriously considered using or adopting LLVM 
> (http://llvm.org)?
> It seems to provide just about everything on your diagram, and is also
> quite efficient.
>
> Even if it is not an option, I would really be interested to hear why 
> not
> and what is missing.  In particular, LLVM is mutable, and it's easier 
> to
> add things to it than to reinvent the whole thing.  :)

It's the part where you have to add everything that GCC has that LLVM 
doesn't that seems to be the problem.

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