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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2012 12:21:03 +0700
From:      Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: November 5th is Clang-Day
Message-ID:  <20121102122103.4afc93e5@X220.ovitrap.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121102045917.GA77204@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <20121102032945.GF65074@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20121102045917.GA77204@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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Hi,

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 21:59:17 -0700
Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:29:45PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> >  - Not all libm tests pass.  More work by subject matter experts is
> >    required to create tests cases for LLVM developers.  Most
> > problems are not expected to be major in practice given that LLVM
> > is being used for scientific computing in a number of products
> > including Cray's FORTRAN compiler, most OpenCL compilers, and the
> > Julia language.
> 
> Is there a knob to continue to use GCC as the default compiler?  
> 
> The above statement is somewhat troubling to those of us
> who use FreeBSD as computational nodes.
> 
> BTW, the name of the language is "Fortran".  It's been "Fortran"
> for the last 30-something years.

I never realised the name change. It seems that I am not alone with
this.

Erich



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