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Subject: Re: [Patch] Proposal: USE_GNU89 switch
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On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:01:38AM -0400, Diane Bruce wrote:
> By the time FreeBSD-9 is released clang support will be solid and all
> ports will compile with clang as well as gcc.

ooh, can I have unicorns, too? :-)

Seriously, I'd like to see the potential to throw the switch, with
the caveat that it will probably be a _long_ time before ports will
work well with anything other than gcc.  (Not that some of them work
that well _with_ gcc; many of the port source files are ancient and
choke on modern gcc implementations.  We keep weeding them out ...)

mcl