[cfe-dev] alternate clang driver

[James Molloy]

Hi,

Similarly to David, I use the current Clang driver and while it's certainly not fantastic, I wouldn't have thought that a brand new standalone tool in Python would be the best solution?

Cheers,

James
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From: cfe-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [cfe-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of David Chisnall [csdavec at swan.ac.uk]
Sent: 20 October 2011 18:51
To: Reed Kotler
Cc: cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] alternate clang driver

Can you tell us a little bit more about what makes this different?  I use clang for cross-compiling for ARM, and invoking clang as arm-none-linux-gnueabi-clang, or as clang -ccc-host-triple arm-none-linux-gnueabi enables it to find all of the other bits of the toolchain fine - I'm using it as an almost drop-in replacement for gcc in the WebOS PDK, which shipped with gcc.  The only difficulty it had was finding the various tools, since the Linux toolchain stuff ignores -B, but this was solved with a few symlinks into the sysroot...

David

On 20 Oct 2011, at 18:04, Reed Kotler wrote:

> We have developed an alternate clang driver and placed it as open source
> in google code.
> http://code.google.com/p/alternate-clang-driver/
>
> Most people are using cross compilers for MIPS. We needed something
> different than what the clang driver provides us at this time.
>
> This driver behaves enough like gcc cross drivers for us to run make
> files and other things meant for gcc right out of the box. We have for
> example run dejagnu gcc using it with no problems.
>
> It's still in development but it works very well for us right now.
>
> I intended to put more documentation for it before announcing it but our
> schedules are overloaded now and I can't assign anyone to do that for
> the next 2 months so I decided to just announce it now.
> We can put resources into bug fixing and extensions but we already know
> how it works so it's not essential for us to do more docs at this time. :)
>
> It's a simple program and written in python and I think it's pretty easy
> to understand from just looking at the code.
>
> We welcome other people to help make it work better for more platforms
> than just MIPS.
>
>
>
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