Apple will use LLVM

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:22:03AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 > On 02/16/2012 10:08 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
 > 
 > >   Not to mention that the kernel devs use gcc to compile the kernel -
 > > and it most certainly puts a lot of pressure on the compiler. I suspect
 > > unless linus drops gcc as well, we'll at a minimum need to keep it to
 > > build the kernel itself. 
 > 
 > Not quite.  LLVM can be used to build the kernel

The last I heard on this, it was very basic. Parts of the kernel
wouldn't compile/work. Including fundamental stuff, like the module loader.
I believe it still used gcc for some parts that choked llvm too.

	Dave