[CFT] gcc: support for barcelona

[Steve Kargl]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 01:01:00PM -0700, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 28 May 2013, at 12:54, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > 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.
> >> 
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Have you, or anyone else, filed bug reports at http://llvm.org/bugs/ ?
> 

I haven't submitted this bug.  Given the attention that another
bug that I pointed out, I have little interest in submitting other
bugs.  Ed Schouten submitted the bug report after I pointed out
clang cannot do complex arithmetic correctly under certain
circumstances.

http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8532

-- 
Steve