On 10/26/2012 11:29 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 02:25:01PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 25/10/2012 19:07, Toshio Kuratomi ha scritto:
>>>> Fedora's policy is to not depend on LLVM/Clang as much as
>>>> possible, but
>>>>>> would it be acceptable to use LLVM/Clang to compile
>>>>>> newer LLVM and Clang releases?
>>>>
>>>> I think it's reasonable to allow llvm to bootstrap itself.
>>>>
>> Does anyone know if there's any security features that gcc
>> compiles in that would be important for clang/llvm? Are there
>> things other than clang/llvm that are using llvm? (python had
>> attempted to but then abandoned the idea).
>
> Software rendering in Mesa (used by recent GNOME3 instead of
> fallback mode).
>
Thanks. For me, this would be a point in favor of compiling LLVM
with gcc.
Yes, that seems to be the safe choice. Thanks!
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