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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 08:03:20
Message-Id: 83032e05-3c71-eb83-0732-70599ac1a2b6@youngman.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS by Dale
1 On 12/03/2022 17:36, Dale wrote:
2 > I've
3 > sort of read about llvm and clang and I seem to recall things like
4 > Firefox needing them or something.
5
6 I've just watched firefox emerging (yes I know, paint drying and all
7 that :-), and there's loads of Rust code in there.
8
9 To the best of my knowledge, gcc can't currently handle Rust, so yes
10 LLVM is needed. (Not Clang, because it isn't C :-) (Although Firefox
11 probably also uses loads of C, so Clang would be needed for that.)
12
13 Cheers,
14 Wol

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>