Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:36:16 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: svn commit: r276485 - in head/sys: conf dev/cxgbe modules/cxgbe/if_cxgbe Message-ID: <54BF1EB0.2080901@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmokL2jq_Kh2CF30G%2BEk63Gab316i6atEN_7gYA8gzDEYNw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201412312319.sBVNJHca031041@svn.freebsd.org> <CA%2BhQ2%2Bh29RObCONCd8Nu_W92CnJ9jHMZdRBqiU9hu78D3SwUDA@mail.gmail.com> <20150106203344.GB26068@ox> <54BEE07A.3070207@FreeBSD.org> <54BEE305.6020905@FreeBSD.org> <54BEF7CF.9030505@FreeBSD.org> <20150121021905.GA73548@FreeBSD.org> <CAJ-VmokL2jq_Kh2CF30G%2BEk63Gab316i6atEN_7gYA8gzDEYNw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/20/15 22:06, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 20 January 2015 at 18:19, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 07:50:23PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >>> But the fix is rather ugly, isn't it? I would personally prefer to just >>> kill the older gcc but in the meantime updating it so that it behaves >>> like the updated gcc/clang would be better. IMHO. >> Seconded. Putting extra harness on the code to avoid bugs in the compiler >> that were actually fixed upsteam is totally bogus. > Right, but: > > * not all of us work on compilers; > * not all of us want to currently be working on compilers; > * some of us have to use the gcc that's in tree; > * .. and apparently updating that gcc to something > 4.2 is verboten. The external toolchain can't be that bad(?). > So if someone wants to help Navdeep by backporting those options, Hmm .. didn't I post a patch? > please do. I bet he'd love the help. > Ugh he doesn't and TBH, I don't care enough to look for consensus either. I find it interesting, and even funny that even the extreme copyleft are predicting clang will take over gcc: http://youtu.be/-ItFjEG3LaA Cheers, Pedro. > > -adrian >
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