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Date:      Tue, 28 May 2013 13:01:00 -0700
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        amd64@FreeBSD.org, toolchain@FreeBSD.org, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: [CFT] gcc: support for barcelona
Message-ID:  <BC5E4352-B735-4F53-85A5-90579BBF19F3@felyko.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130528195457.GA52250@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On 28 May 2013, at 12:54, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> =
wrote:

> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 07:10:23PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
>> On 28 May 2013, at 18:40, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> That's not going to happen soon. While it works OK for amd64, =
there's still many bugs in its ARM support and even more in its MIPS =
support. There's 0 chance it will be gone in 10...
>>=20
>> I disagree.  There is a significant chance that gcc in base
>> will be gone for all Tier 1 platforms in 10.0.  There are
>> still some reasons to want gcc installed, but there are no
>> compelling reasons to want an ancient version of gcc installed
>> on x86[-64] or ARM.  For people who need gcc, the ports
>> collection provides a selection of recent versions.
>>=20
>> David
>=20
> I surely hope not!  Until the individuals pushing the
> change to clang actually tests clang on floating point
> intensive applications, it is IMHO dubious to even have
> clang as the default compiler.  Just the latest example:
>=20
> =
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-numerics/2013-May/000354.html


Have you, or anyone else, filed bug reports at http://llvm.org/bugs/ ?

Regards,
--
Rui Paulo




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