[cfe-dev] RFC: Clang driver redesign

James Molloy james.molloy at arm.com
Tue Nov 8 08:09:25 PST 2011


... and doesn't work on windows :)

-----Original Message-----
From: cfe-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:cfe-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On
Behalf Of Konstantin Tokarev
Sent: 08 November 2011 16:08
To: Clark Gaebel
Cc: clang-dev Developers
Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] RFC: Clang driver redesign

08.11.2011, 19:34, "Clark Gaebel" <cg.wowus.cg at gmail.com>:
> What's wrong with having a gcc compatibility layer for the driver which
just translates from one option set to the other. I'm thinking of something
like:
>
> clang-gcc [gcc options]
> clang-g++ [g++ options]
>
> clang [clang options]
> clang++ [clang++ options]
>
> If anything, the clang-gcc and clang-g++ could just be shell script
wrappers around clang.

Using shell for argument conversion can introduce noticeable performance
penalty.

-- 
Regards,
Konstantin
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