Bug 28376 - [meta] Build glibc with Clang
Summary: [meta] Build glibc with Clang
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: glibc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: libc (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
: P2 normal
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Reported: 2021-09-22 18:23 UTC by Fangrui Song
Modified: 2021-09-22 18:23 UTC (History)
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Description Fangrui Song 2021-09-22 18:23:23 UTC 
The main issue is nested function usage which Clang doesn't support (BZ #27220).

Other issues include:

* Clang's asm label cannot be added after the declaration is first referenced [1]
* Clang parses inline asm and is stricter than GCC. asm("@@@ ...") trick can cause compile errors.
* LLVM's integrated assembler may not support some directives
* PowerPC64 -mlong-double-128 support may not be on par with GCC

Severe issues may deserve its own bug. This can be used by miscellaneous small fixes.


[1]:
void bar();
void foo() { bar(); }
void bar() asm("bar1");

GCC happily redirects the bar call to bar1.
Clang rejects this 
x.c:5:6: error: cannot apply asm label to function after its first use
void bar() asm("bar1");
     ^         ~~~~~~