The trouble won't be until we get to the third bounty. I think for the first two we will be okay. And as for the GCC runtimes, AROS already uses some up-to-date ones.

this -> :-/ implies that if Heiku guys had this trouble we will it have too.

Haiku was having trouble getting code recompiled for the latest GCC runtimes, last I knew. :-/

Sure... "later" is the right word..
LLVM alone is worthy..
The interesting part is that LLVM can also translate any supported language into another...

Step by step... if i'm correct even heiku has no LLVM yet ; )

The first and second bounties look good.

I've looked into PNaCl lately and extracting the code necessary to make an AROS sandbox will not be possible for a while. The PNaCl project, like the NaCl project in general, is still in the early development stages. We'll have to wait and see about how to incorporate LLVM into the third bounty. It may prove to be more practical to port the headers first to make a source-level wrapper and then worry about the sandbox later.

I made the initial donation of 500$ for this bounty.

Get the LLVM code generator to generate code according to the x86 ABI for AROS. It must work under currently supported OSs, such as Linux x86 as a cross-compiler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Level_Virtual_Machine
www.llvm.org

Phase II targeting AROS x64
will follow.

Also in the pipeline is this bounty:
Bounty for Hardware-Agnostic AROS Code Generator, Phase 1:

Get LLVM to generate static libraries under x86 and x86-64 flavors of AROS and rewrite the headers to use late-bindings rather than direct values. This will allow all hardware-specific code to be linked and statically compiled at install time to a hardware-specific runtime such that the bitcode files will be untainted by hardware-specific code.

My personal interest is to expand the possibilites for developers and making the first steps to make a easy transition to AROS 64..... (Or Broadway 64 for in my case )

At the end i hope we will get AROS 32 sandboxed running in AROS64... utilizing PNaCL (Google Native Client....)

The developer who whill give it a try will get more donations... i just wait with donations because the money would otherwise lay dead on p2p.

Best Regards,
Pascal


Just to play around
http://llvm.org/demo/
(they have a cat too)


One note:
This may not look so fancy for normal users but also Apple included it in Xcode...