[LLVMdev] Using LLVM to compile LLVM?

[Robert L. Bocchino Jr.]

Hi,

I'm curious...Can LLVM compile LLVM?  And if so, why don't we use LLVM 
to compile itself?  Why use gcc?

I guess doing it this way could make it hard to fix some bugs, since 
those bugs would be in the compiler you're using for development as 
well.  But it seems that LLVM is developed/robust enough at this point 
that there's a core of it we can use for development work while we 
fix/extend the rest.  Is this a feasible idea?

Rob

Robert L. Bocchino Jr.
Ph.D. Student
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign