[cfe-dev] Google Summer of Code - Port LLVM/clang to Plan 9

[Jordan Gordeev]

On 3/19/10 10:39 AM, Sebastian Redl wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:15:45 -0700, Douglas Gregor<dgregor at apple.com>
> wrote:
>> On Mar 18, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Jordan Gordeev wrote:
>>
>>>   3) It never had C++ support.
>>>
>>> Do you think porting LLVM/clang to Plan 9 is doable, especially in the
>>> GSoC time frame?
>>
>>
>> I think it's probably slightly on the large side in the GSoC time frame.
>> More importantly, Plan 9 isn't a mainstream platform and isn't likely to
> be
>> of interest to much of the LLVM community. GSoC mentors are far more
>> interested in accepting projects that will have a significant benefit to
>> the LLVM community, so a project like this runs the risk of being
> ignored.
>
> In addition, since Plan9 never had C++ support, you'd probably have to
> start by porting a C++ standard library to Plan9. Since no such library is
> part of LLVM, the project at least partially falls outside the domain of
> LLVM.
>
> Sebastian

Douglas and Sebastian, thank you for your comments!

I actually want to do a project for Plan 9 as a mentoring organization, 
so the LLVM community not liking my idea wouldn't deter me.
Having a co-mentor from LLVM/clang would be nice though.

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Jordan Gordeev