Oddball question regarding LLVM and Slackware

Just a curiosity, but how many packages currently can be successfully rebuilt or built using llvm/clang rather than gcc with the same level of stability and reliability as a traditional gcc compiled counterpart? I know there are some subtle differences but are they enough to really matter?

Just had the passing though cross my mind just now and figured I would ask.

On a side note: A complete Slackware release rebuilt with llvm/clang might be an interesting project. Will look into that when I have time.

Thanks.

Pretty much everything will compile with clang (some things might need a few adjustments, but most will just compile). The kernel is about the only thing that absolutely requires gcc.

I've compiled all of KDE4 with llvm/clang as a test, and it ran just fine.

Originally Posted by ReaperX7 On a side note: A complete Slackware release rebuilt with llvm/clang might be an interesting project. Will look into that when I have time.

indeed, good luck. just a tip, you need to link c++ projects with libc++ instead of libstdc++ since the standard library implementations slightly diverse, and the support from clang to compile everything with the standard implementation of libstdc++ is decreasing.
as shown here, for example: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33222
there is currently not that much code that makes use of this new things, but if the tendency continues like I see it, there will soon be an ABI problem and the clang compiler will not longer be a drop in replacement since it will force you to work with it's standard library implementation, and than you will have to have the whole system (at least the C++ part) either with clang, or with gcc compiled.

Originally Posted by volkerdi I've compiled all of KDE4 with llvm/clang as a test, and it ran just fine.

I've seen clang avoid gcc bugs too, including run time issues like segfaults.