Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Mar 17 2017 - 15:32:38 EST


On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 08:26:42PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 08:05:16PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > You can also find some reasons in the Why section of LLVM-Linux project:
> > http://llvm.linuxfoundation.org/index.php/Main_Page
>
> From that:
>
> - LLVM/Clang is a fast moving project with many things fixed quickly
> and features added.
>
> So what's the deal with that 5 year old bug you want us to work around?
>
> Also, clang doesn't support asm cc flags output and a few other
> extensions last time I checked.
>

Another great one:

- BSD License (some people prefer this license to the GPL)

Seems a very weak argument to make when talking about the Linux Kernel
which is very explicitly GPLv2 (and not later).