GCC IMA & general future proposal

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Geoff Keating wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >
> > Heh, likewise, you're talking about adding everything that LLVM has to
> > GCC.  :)
>
> Right.  So, which is the larger source base, LLVM or GCC?

To put it another way, which has more missing features? :)  LOC isn't
everything, as we've shown many times over.

-Chris

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