Re: [PATCH] Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 15:18 -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:21 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-02-25 at 13:56 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > I think we should take a specific version stand as the
> > > "minimum" version. Being able to build x86 defconfig is a good minimum
> > > IMO.
> > 
> > Agree.
> > 
> > It's odd to say that clang 4 is fine for arm when it's
> > not fine for x86.  It's also reasonable to expect arm
> > users to upgrade their compiler to a more recent version
> > when the only cost is a very small bit of time.
> 
> That's a very x86 centric point of view.

Really?

How many code generation improvements and possible defects
have been corrected between clang 4 and clang 10 for arm?

I presume more than a few.