[Haskell-cafe] Will GHC 6.14 with LLVM use LLVM C compiler to compile external C Libraries

[Mathew de Detrich]

This is the main thing I was getting behind, making cross compiling slightly
easier (in regards to C/C++ sources). As also pointed out, whole program
optimization can be one major benefit to integrating Clang like this.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:01 AM, David Terei <dave.terei at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think the main advantage to trying to use Clang for compiling C/C++
> would be that it would enable us to do whole program optimisation
> across Haskell and C/C++. It could also make cross compiling slightly
> easier. These ideas are defiantly something I'd like to investigate
> more in the future.

Cheers,
> David
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