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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
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Cc: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: PCC and FreeBSD in the future?
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:28:01PM -0700, David Leimbach wrote:
> On 10/17/07, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:27:58PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > > * Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> 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?
It's not derived from gcc. Google appears to broken
in your little corner of the net.
http://llvm.org/docs/FAQ.html#license
--
Steve