Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 23:19:58 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r276485 - in head/sys: conf dev/cxgbe modules/cxgbe/if_cxgbe Message-ID: <54BF28EE.1070801@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20150121035243.GA29469@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> 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> <54BF1EB0.2080901@FreeBSD.org> <20150121035243.GA29469@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On 01/20/15 22:52, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:36:16PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> On 01/20/15 22:06, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>> * .. and apparently updating that gcc to something > 4.2 is verboten. >> The external toolchain can't be that bad(?). >> > Are the ever change knobs documented somewhere? > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ExternalToolchain >>> 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 >> > Clang won't take over gcc anytime soon. > <hint> Fortran, ada? </hint> > OK, I do use fortran and even when not everyone uses fortran it's still very difficult to avoid pulling in a version of gcc when installing very basic ports (I recall some X stuff still requires it), but there is already interest to make clang the default compiler in some linux distribution (I forgot which, sorry), so it will not happen soon but it may very well happen. Pedro.
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