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Subject: Re: Is updating contrib/gcc desirable?
From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
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On 31 Dec 2015, at 11:59, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:
>=20
> Would it be the right way of solving the problem if I submitted an =
update of contrib/gcc and contrib/gcclibs from the gcc-5.3.0 tree?

No.

>  Any pitfalls with this?

The newer versions of GCC are GPLv3 and so are unacceptable for the =
FreeBSD base system.  Most of libgcc in base now comes from compiler-rt. =
 The correct solution would be to identify the missing functionality in =
compiler-rt so that it can be fixed (with patches ideally, but even a =
list of the missing functions and what they do would be helpful).  =
Things like libquadmath, which are only needed for the port, belong in =
ports.

David