[cfe-dev] PCRE compiles fines and passes the test suite :)

[Chris Lattner]

On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Nuno Lopes wrote:

>>>>> P.S.2.: why isn't LLVM deployed to replace gcc? isn't it  
>>>>> capable  to act
>>>>> as a
>>>>> drop-in replacement for gcc with the gcc front-end (for now)?
>>>
>>> Noone tackle this question.. My question is for real: can llvm   
>>> already be
>>> used as a drop-in replacement of gcc or not? e.g. can I already   
>>> rebuild my
>>> gentoo system (including the kernel) with llvm? :)
>>
>> If the question is "can llvm-gcc do absolutely everything that gcc  
>> can do", the answer is no.  That said, the known problems are in  
>> mostly obscure areas.  I would expect that you should be able to  
>> build a huge percentage of your gentoo system with llvm-gcc, but  
>> probably not 100%.
>
> Nice! So it seems I can start lobbying the gentoo devs to include  
> llvm in the package tree and allow it to be used as an alternative  
> to gcc.

Yep, please wait until after the llvm 2.2 release though :)

-Chris