[CFT] gcc: support for barcelona

[Warner Losh]

On May 29, 2013, at 2:47 AM, David Chisnall wrote:

> On 29 May 2013, at 07:57, Andriy Gapon <avg at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> In fact, I am of opinion that while such bugs exist gcc should be crowned back
>> as a default compiler.
> 
> Seriously?  Your show stopper bug is that, very occasionally, clang emits incorrect debug info?  And Steve's is that clang emits code that is fully compliant with the C standard, but gives more floating point precision than he wanted?
> 
> If those are the most serious problems we have with clang, then it's time to remove gcc 4.2.1 from the tree right now.  I wish the problems that we had with it were so trivial...

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There are serious problems with clang on arm right now. And it doesn't support mips. Removing gcc is way premature.

Warner