[Anon1096]

Meanwhile:

> I spent a good part of my career (nearly a decade) at Google working on getting Clang to build the linux kernel.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905771

[lionkor]

Afaik the Linux Kernel strongly depends on GCC extensions and GCC specific behavior, so maybe that's why this is such an interesting part? Also extensions like inline assembly seem wildly complicated to add to an existing compiler WHILE replicating the syntax and semantics of another compiler (which has a different software architecture).

[latexr]

If you spend a decade working on something, you’re not “hacking it”.