Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 04:06:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r43536 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201401150406.s0F46d6h030217@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Wed Jan 15 04:06:38 2014 New Revision: 43536 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43536 Log: - Add a 2013Q4 report on base GCC Submitted by: pfg Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Wed Jan 15 01:52:58 2014 (r43535) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Wed Jan 15 04:06:38 2014 (r43536) @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 33 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 34 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -1834,4 +1834,42 @@ device vt_vga</pre> taken for safekeeping, and 1 src bit was reactivated.</p> </body> </project> + + <project cat='bin'> + <title>Base GCC Updates</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Pedro</given> + <common>Giffuni</common> + </name> + <email>pfg@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>The GCC compiler in the &os; base system is on its way to + deprecation and is only used by some Tier-2 platforms at this + time. While Clang is much better in many aspects, we still + cannot use in base all the new features it brings until we can + drop GCC completely. As a stop-gap solution several bug fixes + and features from Apple GCC and other sources have been ported + to our version of GCC 4.2.1 to make it more compatible with + Clang. &os;'s GCC has added more warnings and some enhancements + like <tt>-Wmost</tt> and <tt>-Wnewline-eof</tt>. An + implementation for Apple's blocks extension is now available too + and it will be very useful to enhance &os;'s support for Apple's + Grand Central Dispatch (GCD).</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Merge from <tt>head</tt> to <tt>stable/9</tt> is being + considered but it disables nested functions by default so the + impact on ports has to be evaluated.</task> + + <task>No further development of GCC 4.2 in the base system is + planned.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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