Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM

Re:Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM by phkahler on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:57AM (#28157115)

>> I'm all for Intel helping improve LLVM, but the technical arguments for maintaining a separate commercial version don't convince me at all.

This is exactly why GCC is GPL and why RMS didn't want to make it more modular. Taken to the extreme we could end up with proprietary hardware that requires a proprietary (closed) compiler even though it's built on open source. Going back to "trusting trust" things might not be so good, and we know Intel is happy to build untrustworthy chips.

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Re:Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM by DSingularity on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:04AM (#28157211)

What does “trusting trust” have to do with this? That problem is a bootstrapping problem when trying to establish a trusted base. Simple summary is: if the first compiler was backdoored to detect when it is compiling other versions of itself and then inserting the same backdoor in the assembly of the target then how can you trust anything compiled by it?

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Re:Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM by phkahler on Friday August 13, 2021 @09:32AM (#28168611)

You're right, the "trusting trust" compiler hack is way more complicated.

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