[LLVMdev] Compiling FreeBSD kernels with LLVM 2.3-pre

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Since yesterday I've been toying around with LLVM on my FreeBSD box at
> the office. As an ideal test I tried to compile a FreeBSD kernel. I've
> just sent the following message to the FreeBSD Hackers list, which
> contains some stats on compile time, binary size, etc.
>
> Links:
>
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-May/024600.html
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-May/024605.html
>
> I'd like to thank the LLVM team for writing such a good compiler. So far
> I'm really impressed by the state of the compiler. I can't wait for the
> 2.3 release. :-)

Awesome!  If you're interested, the slides from my BSDCan talk are here 
for BSD'ers who couldn't make it:
http://llvm.org/pubs/2008-05-17-BSDCan-LLVMIntro.html

-Chris

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