On: GCC eBPF for Linux port has landed

[anaphor]

Presumably it means you can write your eBPF source code and have it get compiled through GCC (meaning you get all of its optimizations, architecture targets, etc).

[sigjuice → anaphor]

Isn’t eBPF the architecture target in this case, i.e. gcc will translate C (and/or others?) to eBPF?

[anaphor → sigjuice]

eBPF is its own language as well that is (more or less) a subset of C, is my understanding, so presumably they can apply some of the same optimization / analysis to it as they would C code, right?