[CFT] gcc: support for barcelona

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Tue May 28 19:55:00 UTC 2013


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 07:10:23PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 28 May 2013, at 18:40, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> > That's not going to happen soon. While it works OK for amd64, there's still many bugs in its ARM support and even more in its MIPS support. There's 0 chance it will be gone in 10...
> 
> I disagree.  There is a significant chance that gcc in base
> will be gone for all Tier 1 platforms in 10.0.  There are
> still some reasons to want gcc installed, but there are no
> compelling reasons to want an ancient version of gcc installed
> on x86[-64] or ARM.  For people who need gcc, the ports
> collection provides a selection of recent versions.
> 
> David

I surely hope not!  Until the individuals pushing the
change to clang actually tests clang on floating point
intensive applications, it is IMHO dubious to even have
clang as the default compiler.  Just the latest example:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-numerics/2013-May/000354.html

-- 
Steve


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