On May 17, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Prof Brian Ripley > <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: >> This is getting increasingly difficult. GCC 4.6.x and 4.7.x detect a lot of >> errors (especially C++ errors) that earlier versions did not -- and that >> means CRAN gets a fair number of submissions that we cannot compile. And >> there have been a lot of optimization advances since 4.1.x. > > I would also point out that clang has significantly better error detection > and diagnostics compared to current GCC. Installations stuck with old GCC > releases for GPL3 reasons should really migrate to clang / llvm. >
The problem is that unfortunately clang is too incomplete for that -- it lacks Fortran and OpenMP support - both are quite important for R so migrating to clang is not realistic so far. Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
