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Linux has been built with small modifications under tcc, icc and llvm. Linus doesn't want it to be tightly coupled to GCC.

The LLVM build patchset is being actively maintained, here hare slides from February: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides...



Yeah, I get the impression Linus fucking hates GCC :P

That's good though. Compiler freedom is better for everyone.




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