[LLVMdev] Targeting ARM Cortex-a9 from x86_64 with clang

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Nov 26 11:10:21 PST 2013


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Sean Silva wrote:
> Well, just remember that the GNU binutils that those tools are derived from
> support far more architectures (3x, 5x?) than LLVM does (just supporting
> linux requires like 30 architectures). When we get to that point, it will
> probably not make sense for a distro to ship a binary targeting all the
> architectures that we support, for the same reason it doesn't make sense
> for them to install binaries for every target supported by the GNU
> toolchain.

I know that FreeBSD limits the set of targets by default mostly for
compile reasons, the size difference is not that big. The trade off is
*much* better with LLVM.

Joerg



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