OpenMandriva Can Now Clang Its Linux Kernel Build For This LLVM Focused Distribution

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenMandriva Can Now Clang Its Linux Kernel Build For This LLVM Focused Distribution

OpenMandriva is one of the few Linux distributions (and arguably the only prominent one) that uses LLVM Clang as its default compiler toolchain over GCC for building its packages and the preferred C/C++ compiler exposed to its users. One of the last hold outs for this Clang'ed Linux distribution has been the kernel build but that is now no longer a blocker...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenMandriva-Clang-Kernel

[rene]

I tried this recently excessively live on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZGV_7TfKy8 LTDW: not many benefits, LLVM/clang does not produce better code, and is itself very sensitive to optimisations, you need to compile LLVM/clang very specifically not to be much slower, and even then it is still slower than latest GCC. plus all the non compiling random build errors due to different C/C++ standard compliance, ...

[staalmannen]

For anyone interested I recently uploaded a musl/clang gentoo image:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comm...lchain_stage4/

[GrayShade]

Just wondering, what was the reason for them to switch the whole distro from GCC to clang? I can imagine some benefits in supporting both, but what made OpenMandriva do this?

[JavaSin]

Hello Good Morning I Do Have Clanged My Linux Kernel id like to share a link of my post on a Linux Spanish Group With Some Evidence https://www.facebook.com/groups/linu...4022397977731/

This Is Wih No LTO or ThinLto , if someone can provide some info , how to get it done with thinlto please share

[xpris]

Just wondering, what was the reason for them to switch the whole distro from GCC to clang? I can imagine some benefits in supporting both, but what made OpenMandriva do this?

Here is answer: https://llvm.org/devmtg/2019-04/slid...nux_distro.pdf

[retardxfce]

Wasnt openmandriva very slow compared to normal Linux distributions the last time phoronix did benchmarks?

[ms178]

Wasnt openmandriva very slow compared to normal Linux distributions the last time phoronix did benchmarks?

Yes, it was, even their Zen-build wasn't showing significant benefits and I hoped for more.

[berolinux]

Wasnt openmandriva very slow compared to normal Linux distributions the last time phoronix did benchmarks?

Those benchmarks were run with each distribution's default settings, where OpenMandriva has all sorts of power management enabled to help extend battery life while some other distributions being compared default to performance no matter what.

[tildearrow]

Here is answer: https://llvm.org/devmtg/2019-04/slid...nux_distro.pdf

Better compile times (for resulting binaries with very similar performance)

Really? I'd prefer to have a fast OS than a fast-compiled OS.

Maybe most importantly: More readable code

But compiled code isn't readable? (maybe except when read through a decompiler like objdump)