>>>>> "Sébastien" == Sébastien Bourdeauducq <[email protected]> writes:
> On 02/08/2012 06:58 PM, JP Bonn wrote: >>> Do you think we can start submitting it upstream? >> >> No. They will require someone to be committed to maintaining it. I >> can't make that commitment at this point > Well, this is a lesser evil :) > gcc-lm32 has been completely broken for more than a year now due to > various regressions introduced by other people. GCC's obscure > spaghetti code not only makes bugs more difficult to fix, but also > there can't be a month without a commit destroying your port, often in > a way that wastes massive amounts of time to sort out. The situation > seems better with LLVM and this is the main reason why I believe we > should switch to it. Just one word of caution: I've been eying the milkymist-openwrt port, and I'm quite sure that much Linux software is going to be better off with gcc (especially g++) instead of llvm. If we do the switch now, incentitives to fix gcc bugs will be reduced, which may make the Linux userspace porting efforts a bit more difficult in the future... I'm also thinking about a Debian port, once the MMU stuff etc. is done, integrated with the kernel etc. (not this year anyways?), and I really don't see how that would work without GCC. With you guys constantly bashing GCC, binutils, "autocrap" autotools, etc. I cannot help but to cite an Emacs developer: it is often said that small is beautiful. now, anything can be beautiful when it is small. the ugliest person you can think of was probably a quite pretty baby. it doesn't take much effort to find a beautiful 16-year-old girl, either. in fact, our modern notions of beauty and elegance are _defined_ in terms of size and maturity, so the chance of anything small and immature being beautiful is vastly higher than anything big or mature. [..] [1] Just my $0.02 cheers, David [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ErikNaggum#toc5 -- GnuPG public key: http://dvdkhlng.users.sourceforge.net/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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