LLVM userland libraries: yes or no?

[technix]

I am thinking as most of my development depend on clang (LOVE it's beautiful debug output and fix-it) so I am thinking is using LLVM userland libraries a good idea? (It is known to be good on OS X, as Apple dropped libstdc++ on OS X 10.9 and symlinked it to libc++)

Components include:
* newlib libc (LLVM does not have a libc though)
* libc++rt C++ runtime library,
* libc++ C++ standard library (C++11 feature complete)

Also, since my init is in Objective-C, those are required too:
* libobjc2+libGNUObjCRuntime (GNUstep Objective-C 2.0 runtime, as init requires it)
* libgnustep-base (GNUstep's clone of Apple's Foundation Kit, as init requires it)

[dozniak]

Didn't get your question.

If you want to use those libraries, use them. If you don't then don't.

You will still need to do a bit of porting to your platform.

I'm using libc++ myself, although I have disabled all iostreams functionality (not necessary in the kernel and needs some porting before it can be used).

[AbstractYouShudNow]

In terms of design or implementation ?

[Owen]

(It is known to be good on OS X, as Apple dropped libstdc++ on OS X 10.9 and symlinked it to libc++)

No they didn't. They have different ABIs. Doing that would break every C++ app not compiled against libc++.

libc++ is just now the default (and by far most complete, because Mac OS X will forever be stuck at libstdc++ 4.2)