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Date:      Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:24:05 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r294029 - in head/sys/boot/efi: . boot1 loader
Message-ID:  <56982005.3000308@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <56981E73.1020101@FreeBSD.org>
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On 01/14/16 17:17, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>
...
>>
>>     Specially since the gcc-4.2 compiler will be axed mercilessly before
>>     11.0-RELEASE.
>>
>>
>> We hope, you mean.
>>
>
> As scheduled ... I mean. It was discussed in the BSDCan 2014 Dev Summit.
>
>> Never versions of gcc will be supported where they work, and will be
>> required for some platforms where clang isn't quite there.
>
> When we unhook the old crappy GCC someone will be forced to figure out
> how to get the external toolchain working. Otherwise we can sit and
> wait for ever.
>

OK .. I'll take this back... I know imposing such drastic measures is
not the way the project works ... sometimes I just wish ;).

Pedro.



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