[gccsdk] Development roadmap proposal

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi John,

> 5. Since several of years there is a new kid around the block in 'free'
>    compiler land : LLVM http://www.llvm.org/.  Basically it is a compile
>    infrastructure/JIT/code transformer/code analyser/etc of which one of
>    its usecases is just compile C/C++ with apparently respectful or even
>    impressive results.  The C/C++ frontend is still a bit immature and
>    not 100% ready for cross-compile purposes but I've already been playing
>    a bit with it (gccsdk/branches/joty/llvm) to get a better understanding
>    what this could mean as RISC OS compiler.

Out of curiosity, were you playing with llvm-gcc, which is GCC for the
front-end and LLVM for the back-end, or Clang, their new C/C++/Objective
C/etc. compiler that doesn't use GCC and is aimed at being a faster
compiler, more cleanly implemented?

    http://llvm.org/cmds/llvmgcc.html
    http://clang.llvm.org/

Cheers,


Ralph.