Apple will use LLVM

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Thu Feb 16 17:06:01 UTC 2012


On 02/15/2012 11:52 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Not quite.  LLVM can be used to build the kernel

No, that is simply not true.  Factually incorrect.

I have been working on building the kernel with LLVM, with many changes 
submitted (merged over a year ago), but LLVM still needs several obscure 
compiler changes before we can even boot a no-op kernel.

	Jeff








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