[llvm-dev] For the LLVM wishlist

[ardi via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:45:03AM +0200, ardi via llvm-dev wrote:
>> What I found is that the build system is really complex, performs many
>> checks, and quite often takes wrong decisions (example: a fatal error
>> if the OS X version is older than 10.7, instead of just disabling
>> sanitizers and continuing with the build --moreover, if you manually
>> disable the sanitizers build, its tests are not disabled at make
>> check-all, so you end up with many tests failing because of a
>> component you didn't build).
>
> Huh? If you check out only llvm and clang, nothing is checked for the
> sanitizers, they don't get built and they don't get tested.

But if you don't check out compiler-rt, you don't get builtins.
Missing the feature of getting highly optimized code output is a big
miss, IMHO. And I don't think builtins require anything apart from a
standard compiler.

ardi