[LLVMdev] Compile Linux Kernel with LLVM gcc frontend

[Chris Lattner]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Patrick Flannery wrote:
> I can say that it does not for me,running x86_64, I have been generating 
> errors for submission by testing on a number of gnu utilities starting 
> with binutils.

If you run into problems, please file bugs.

-Chris

> On Aug 31, 2007, at 6:11 PM, "Haifeng He" <hehaifeng2nd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am curious about if the current LLVM implementation can handle Linux
> kernel (or any particular version of Linux kernel).  The first question I have
> is that, how to create LLVM bytecode of Linux kernel using LLVM
> gcc frontend. What changes should I make to the compiling process
> Linux kernel?
>
> Secondly, is it possible to compile the assembly code in Linux kernel into LLVM
> bytecode? I noticed that llvm-as is for LLVM assembly code only. Is
> there a LLVM assembly frontend for x86 assembly code?
>
> Thanks
>
> Haifeng
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