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--- Mer 6/8/08, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> ha scritto:

...
>=20
> Or, perhaps, I'm missing something.
>=20

Future of FreeBSD on Alpha is death, but you are missing the signs of times=
:

- LLVM is about providing a better compiler infrastructure under a BSD-like=
 license. They support FreeBSD and have an Alpha backend.

- The latest versions of GCC are under the GPLv3, which is being avoided by=
 FreeBSD and other projects, at least for the immediate future.

FreeBSD-Alpha bugs may not be specific to FreeBSD, but of course if no one =
cares to report problems they won't get fixed and eventually they will drop=
 support too.

FWIW, more info on LLVM specific to FreeBSD:

http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/schedule/track/Invited%20Talks/99.en.html

cheers,

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