[PATCH 0/6] LLVMLinux: Patches to enable the kernel to be compiled with clang/LLVM

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Jul 9 02:57:18 PDT 2014


On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:16:10PM +0100, behanw at converseincode.com wrote:
> From: Behan Webster <behanw at converseincode.com>
> 
> The LLVMLinux project aims to fully build the Linux kernel using both gcc and
> clang (the C front end for the LLVM compiler infrastructure project). 
> 
> Clang only supports global named registers for non-allocatable registers like
> the stack pointer. By centralizing the definition of current_stack_pointer, the
> use of named registers for ARM remains largely unchanged while working for both
> gcc and clang.

All looks sane to me. For the series:

  Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

BTW, have you tried building an arm64 kernel with clang?

Will



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