Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 23:56:18 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [current tinderbox] failure on ...all... Message-ID: <20050613065618.GA30092@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050612042406.GB5996@soaustin.net> References: <20050609234619.AD1F67306E@freebsd-current.sentex.ca> <p0621025fbeceac0673f8@128.113.24.47> <84dead720506091950779d1661@mail.gmail.com> <86oeae3d8f.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050610071828.GB78035@ip.net.ua> <867jh23bwh.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050610074706.GE78035@ip.net.ua> <20050612022105.GB67746@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050612042406.GB5996@soaustin.net>
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On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:24:06PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > > I tried. But Kris refused to consider the following for committing. > > The problem is something like 3 ports will not build with > > "-fno-strict-aliasing". Those are the gcc28, gnat[*] ports. > > > > [*] I really don't understand why we have a GCC 2.8 based Ada compiler > > when Ada has been a native part of GCC since version 3.1... > > If these ports are useless, why don't we mark them DEPRECATED and > after a decent interval, get rid of them? > > In this day and age, anyone who's on gcc27 or gcc28 is hopelessly > behind anyways. I could say that about tons of other ports. The gcc28 port works fine, and I don't see what is wrong with the patch I supplied. gcc28 is still the fastest compiler (in terms of compiler speed) we have on FreeBSD. It is still useful. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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