From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 17 21:54:41 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE64B16A469 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:54:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leimy2k@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1C113C459 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:54:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leimy2k@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so4770306pyb for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:54:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=PvKsJImKIPYcmmA1enkc+DnV5R7OsKKctrhfwT/gEuQ=; b=EV8jCfyIspdcBNVkNfFmuqH4sY2TldN4uXPXa7CjzlMwKIyD7uT2R+lFeIbJhxhiem9fnMUImHQpmSCbnK8nnyH/vd/XiXxbzuh2Oy+KApMv789yJuzFjp+q21EweUfuBNeFnEfp+kh+83vWG1iTy+4IGMJHEa5rgrRaX0GtMzY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=XKwfEmDr0ny7OKDlNaKVql1I4vQ/e0F9rcDyQ7Gtc9Wi4b4K4WzhuKX9P+UmOARiy505CLkRPkCHNuZ//9A8QlY3QzHI5U0Oy89eevp6fBJ85U2fh75ByEEUxzcOh0AKUdBNq0Nms5MjQJd0NzUN3yVr4ThgRCedGQsLNJp1w44= Received: by 10.141.29.18 with SMTP id g18mr4500122rvj.1192656481322; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:28:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.197.6 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:28:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3e1162e60710171428i1c28c7a5ha285a4d4ea8f5ce5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:28:01 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Roman Divacky" In-Reply-To: <20071017203438.GA37057@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <132802.25776.qm@web33711.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20071017173941.GT5411@hoeg.nl> <20071017182758.GU5411@hoeg.nl> <20071017203438.GA37057@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Current , Ed Schouten , Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Subject: Re: PCC and FreeBSD in the future? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:54:41 -0000 On 10/17/07, Roman Divacky wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:27:58PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > > * Ed Schouten wrote: > > > One of the major obstacles for PCC is that it didn't support a way to > > > pack structures in a comfortable way. Most of the FreeBSD userland > just > > > built with it. Most of the stuff that didn't compile properly, was > > > related to kernel headers, using __attribute__ stuff, instead of the > > > cdef'd stuff, like __packed. It seems things have changed in the mean > > > time. > > > > Indeed; PCC now supports _Pragma("packed"). I've attached a patch for > > sys/cdefs.h that should make at least src/bin compile like it should. > > The patch is in no way meant to be complete. > > on the other hand llvm-gcc (and clang in the near future) compiles > basically > everything out of the box + its highly optimizing (yet still much faster > than > gcc) + BSD licensed.. ;) > It's derived from gcc yet BSD licensed? Erm, how?