Subj : the eagle has landed
To   : Gerrit Kuehn
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Fri Sep 06 2019 23:40:32

Hallo Gerrit!

 GK> FreeBSD completely switched already some time ago

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang;

  25 February 2009  Clang/LLVM can compile a working FreeBSD kernel.
  10 June 2010      Clang/LLVM becomes integral part of FreeBSD, but default 
compiler is still GCC.
  12 May 2012       Clang/LLVM announced to replace GCC in FreeBSD.
  5 November 2012   Clang becomes default compiler in FreeBSD 10.x.

I don't see any claims for a Linux kernel, nor as a default compiler on any 
Linux distribution.  They do mention something about Debian which, given the 
eglibc support of days gone by, isn't really a feather in clang's cap ... if 
you know what I mean.

Anyhow I have built llvm with clang in the past and I suspect it is still 
doable but I have serious doubts about it compiling standard Linux source from 
kernel.org without some major hacking/patching.  Also I haven't installed clang 
on anything here yet and it'll be awhile since I am just upgrading the 
raspberrypi as we speak.  I guesstimate some clang kernel/glibc action sometime 
early next week.  For me those are the two most mission critical packages and 
will tell the tale.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

.... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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