From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>,
Sparse Mailing-list <linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linearize bug?
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:26:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOJsxLERqAvGkJPdwSqw-MA9yvaGACVzPGMSmY51cH5v9cho+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E594DAA.8060401@garzik.org>
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>> I disagree - mainly because I don't think we're interested in the back
>> end, are we?
>>
>> If we were doing LLVM hacking, then I'd agree. But as it is, we're
>> supposed to improve sparse, not LLVM, so we should make sure that the
>> _sparse_ output makes sense, and LLVM is just a code generator, no?
>
> No idea Pekka's interest...
>
> In general, my own decade-long goal has been to be able to play with a
> kernel compiler other than gcc.
[snip]
I'm also interested in hopefully being able to eventually compile the
kernel with sparse.
I'm not that interested in LLVM and really only picked it because it
seems to be simplest solution for now. I do agree with Linus that we
should improve sparse rather than rely on LLVM for everything.
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-28 6:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-27 6:29 linearize bug? Jeff Garzik
2011-08-27 11:34 ` Kamil Dudka
2011-08-27 15:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-27 15:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-08-27 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-27 16:54 ` Kamil Dudka
2011-08-27 17:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-27 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-27 19:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-27 20:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-08-28 6:26 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2011-08-27 23:39 ` [PATCH] cse: update PHI users when throwing away an instruction Kamil Dudka
2011-08-28 0:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-28 6:32 ` Christopher Li
2011-08-28 6:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-28 8:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-08-27 22:07 ` linearize bug? Jeff Garzik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-12 4:09 Jeff Garzik
2006-11-13 4:43 ` Linus Torvalds
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