LLVM 9.0 Released With Ability To Build The Linux x86_64 Kernel, Experimental OpenCL C++

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM 9.0 Released With Ability To Build The Linux x86_64 Kernel, Experimental OpenCL C++

It's coming almost one month behind schedule, but LLVM 9.0 is out today along with the Clang 9.0 C/C++ compiler and associated sub-projects for this open-source compiler infrastructure...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-9.0-Clang-9.0-Released

[rene]

yep, excessively done that the last weeks ;-) full Link-Time Optimized Linux distribution with musl/clang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kQ3Q_yzzTQ

[Azpegath]

So will we get to see some tests run on a kernel/system built woth LLVM now Michael ?

[dreich]

Azpegath here these are the first ones.

[tildearrow]

Typo:

See the aforlinked feature overview

[ms178]

Last time I tried to compile the Kernel with Clang there were still some interesting objtool warnings left. I will check it out if it is still the case.

[cen1]

Pretty impressive actually, I thought linux clang project was mostly dead or at least stuck.

[pyler]

Benchmarks with gcc 9.2 and Clang 10 SVN ? Michael