On 17/9/17 4:41 am, Joel Sherrill wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org > <mailto:ged...@rtems.org>> wrote: > > Ah, thanks for the update Daniel! > > I recently saw someone on newlib mailing list say that the newlib can > be compiled by clang for the ARM processor now. > > > llvm/clang's disadvantage vs gcc is its support for as many architectures > and older CPU variants. Given it a try for the arm but I would be surprised > if it supports all of the CPU models we have BSPs for.
Yes, any support we can add with clang would be great and of course gcc is still critical for us. > > Any idea on PowerPC status? I haven't checked that in a few years but > they had a lack of maintainer issue then. > > I am really curious to find out how this works out. It would be nice to > have RSB entries for the targets that work so we can at least try it > for analysis and make it easier for us all to bang on it. Otherwise, > it won't get used. > I agree we need to package it. I thought llvm built all backends so a standard build will include arm, powerpc or what ever it contains. How does the threading model map to RTEMS? How does newlib get built? Does anyone have a recipe for using clang with RTEMS? Chris _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
