From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 2 20:17:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096DE1065673; Sun, 2 May 2010 20:17:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FEF58FC23; Sun, 2 May 2010 20:17:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so1818471fxm.13 for ; Sun, 02 May 2010 13:17:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=oOV/NJbp4++nuKOi3WES+QfyYESwcTdaIKUGOj/QiP8=; b=EUqQCXOngOrazyL4b04xbSSsop0kS42q9TTbcbcfDN59NeqMVbuIkL1iSmcZ2ZRoq3 9rJvkYhQ7Gokaic6frU3A9hIHC5+nmiAF+viG5nBJjKZ4o7FXlMznqoxxGDFYOnl3ZHr CY3eqBtTyEtQhXjwxc9uJyGjvCYfQctASlmns= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=LbnxzvRBLWE4cJi5FvPDQ/ly8DaMr7aM9ewHGSBGbcSJAp+8fudtVavmYwAlKQImNR Y1DUeiYdqGw/8sQ7UpCGgLVmqBKnw+tVPiiwxrfcvLcDqMLifdNbov+rvxDp9rNZwOi2 TYll2OEhFzSwbcXR7bLnc0TV/gSJEDwqlJV1c= Received: by 10.239.183.145 with SMTP id u17mr34259hbg.209.1272831440196; Sun, 02 May 2010 13:17:20 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.193.77 with HTTP; Sun, 2 May 2010 13:17:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BDD28E2.8010201@rawbw.com> References: <4BDD28E2.8010201@rawbw.com> From: Eitan Adler Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 23:17:00 +0300 Message-ID: To: yuri@rawbw.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Andrius_Mork=C5=ABnas?= Subject: Re: GSoC: Making ports work with clang X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 20:17:31 -0000 > Having tried clang++ I have a feeling that it's not quite ready to be a > generic c++ compiler. > It crashes a lot, fails on many quite simple c++ patterns. Very immature. > Don't you feel it's too early to start project like you are going to given > the state of clang with c++? > You will just keep stumbling upon various problems with various ports and > maybe will make 30% of c++ ports build with it at best. Good - and those 30% of ports will help improve clang++ even more. Hopefully over time that number will increase to 100% and we will be able to say goodbye to gcc for good.