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> References: <51A38CBD.6000702@FreeBSD.org> <E9DC99EF-F2E9-4A5F-8370-36DA25DE2C89@felyko.com> <51A3B8AB.5080808@FreeBSD.org> <521EEFA1-E116-41F5-B618-238E7AA092A8@bsdimp.com> <3C29AD82-077D-4E6B-94C7-5D069A130348@FreeBSD.org> <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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