From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1820 invoked by alias); 4 Jun 2009 10:21:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 1805 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jun 2009 10:21:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (HELO fg-out-1718.google.com) (72.14.220.159) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:21:01 +0000 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 13so213479fge.5 for ; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:20:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.86.35.8 with SMTP id i8mr2313276fgi.42.1244110858237; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:20:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <38a0d8450906040314j143c6537y69a0547b3ee542de@mail.gmail.com> References: <5787cf470906032330r5887976r7ab34c5912c0052@mail.gmail.com> <62149AC6-E31E-4095-98E8-FAD5416DED4A@apple.com> <38a0d8450906040314j143c6537y69a0547b3ee542de@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:21:00 -0000 Message-ID: <571f6b510906040320t1af094fcqc562209ec212226d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: LLVM as a gcc plugin? From: Steven Bosscher To: Rafael Espindola Cc: Chris Lattner , Uros Bizjak , GCC Development Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2009-06/txt/msg00064.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Rafael Espindola wr= ote: >> I'd love to see this, but I can't contribute to it directly. =A0I think = the >> plugin interfaces would need small extensions, but there are no specific >> technical issues preventing it from happening. =A0LLVM has certainly >> progressed a lot since that (really old) email went out :) > > I can help a bit. Excuse me if this is a stupid question, but eh -- why would you want to make an LLVM plugin? Aren't LLVM and GCC doing just fine as competing compilers? Ciao! Steven