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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] LLVM backend for Sparse
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:33:59 -0400
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Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

On 08/29/2011 11:14 AM, Derek M Jones wrote:
> Can people allay my concern that this work is not on the slippery
> slope leading to sparse becoming the recommended compiler for
> building the kernel?

I doubt sparse will ever have the testing, support and deployment 
infrastructure of the gcc ecosystem.

	Jeff