Re: Why Clang

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am not sure, as long as clients would be treated seriously! I look at large corporate software vendors and see them treating customers seriously maybe 2% of the time at best. In this case, most of I assumed FreeBSD team are OK and would fit in this 2% or even those 0.2% am i wrong?

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I would see a problem with that -- not because I don't think FreeBSD is worth it. I do, and I think it is worth more than that, in fact. The true. biggest problem with what you propose, though, is that it would destroy the social factors in development of the FreeBSD system that make it

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-22 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 22 June 2012 07:04:35 Bernt Hansson wrote: I want to whish all a very mery Midsummer's Eve and Midsummer's Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer#Sweden I appreciate the sentiment but it's midwinter here ;) Jonathan ___

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: for commercial sponsors of FreeBSD, it has zero bearing on FreeBSD itself. If FreeBSD appears as a subsidiary of some commercial company (say Juniper) i am not sure this will be good I think any project that size is actually

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:16:31 -0500, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. This has not been decided in court yet. In which court not? Of which

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 21 06:07:49 2012 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:06:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kpn...@pobox.com Subject: Re: Why

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i already proposed (but not publically) to turn FreeBSD into commercial system. REALLY i would not see a problem to pay say 100$ per server licence. I would see a problem with that -- not because I

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
Wojciech Puchar wrote: We put clang because sponsors wanted it. Sponsors didn't want clang. Sponsors wanted not to be encumbered by a GPLv3 they are not. programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. You don't know what you don't know, trollboi. Anything so much as

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 21 12:37:00 2012 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:30:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: Mark Felder f...@feld.me Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Clang z woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 21 12:39:02 2012 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:30:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: Robison, Dave david.robi...@fisglobal.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Clang Because there's

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 21 12:44:17 2012 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:36:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: Mark Felder f...@feld.me Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Clang sources please! Google GPLv3

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 21 12:46:15 2012 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:37:48 -0500 From: Mark Felder f...@feld.me Cc: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Subject: Re: Why Clang On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:36:03 -0500, Wojciech

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Reid Linnemann
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I disagree with the assessment by others that FreeBSD is in some way effectively a subsidiary of its corporate users, but it does have corporate users, as well as non-corporate users.  Just as it must reasonably see to

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Because it doesn't address an of the *OTHER* valid reasons why GCC is being replaced -- among them: 1) GCC's continuously increasing propensity to generate bad code, examples? All test shows that gcc code is not only bad, but very good. Why are you just saying things you know isn't true?

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Because it doesn't address an of the *OTHER* valid reasons why GCC is being replaced -- among them: 1) GCC's continuously increasing propensity to generate bad code, examples? All test shows that gcc code is not only bad, but very good. Why are you just saying things you

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:25:55 -0500, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: examples? All test shows that gcc code is not only bad, but very good. Why are you just saying things you know isn't true? Fast code is not guaranteed to be correct code.

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
Thomas Mueller wrote: There actually is/was a closed-source BSD (BSDI), and there is Mac OS X, with BSD under the covers. BSDi sold source-code licenses. I was an early-adopter, and I _have_ one. The vast majority of the code was taken directly from BSD 4.4 Lite, and the source-code

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
From woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Fri Jun 22 09:26:33 2012 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:25:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Clang Because it doesn't address

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 08:28:17AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: biggest problem with what you propose, though, is that it would destroy the social factors in development of the FreeBSD system that make it what it is, and thus destroy FreeBSD itself, as far as I am concerned. I am not

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 01:16:09PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i already proposed (but not publically) to turn FreeBSD into commercial system. REALLY i would not see a problem to pay say 100$ per

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:24:57AM -0500, Reid Linnemann wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I disagree with the assessment by others that FreeBSD is in some way effectively a subsidiary of its corporate users, but it does have corporate users, as

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Michel Talon
Le 21 juin 2012 à 03:52, kpn...@pobox.com a écrit : All of this may seem stupid to a reasonable person outside of law. I'll agree that it probably does look stupid. But it is also the reality of the legal systems we must live with today. I can only praise kpneal for this very well

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread fred . morcos
And I just want to add I'm a gay Marxist atheist and I represent the accusations leveled in that other post...we have feelings too!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: List flames (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Stephen Cook scli...@gmail.com: No, this is unusual. But also remember that most of these lists are not just unmoderated but open to posting without subscription. Then it becomes kind of amazing at how little flaming and trolling there is. That's not an accident, the admins work hard

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
for commercial sponsors of FreeBSD, it has zero bearing on FreeBSD itself. If FreeBSD appears as a subsidiary of some commercial company (say Juniper) i am not sure this will be good I think any project that size is actually a subsidiary and must be. I just don't like that it isn't stated

Re: List flames (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Because of FreeBSD lists being mainly unmoderated and open to posting without subscription, I notice some outright spams that slip through the list filters. I believe (could possibly be wrong) that the lists have spam filters in place. it must have and well done. FreeBSD list is for sure more

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Snippet from Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com: I have some friends that develop software. They had released it under GNU umbrella. Later on, other folks were taking advantage and not giving back as the license requires. There was little to no way to enforce the license, he decided

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
wrong way to go. I can ask him for these and other reasons at your request. Yes, that would be a good idea, not so much for me as for others who want to better understand the licensing issues of GCC compared to Clang. i would like to hear this. but only in C compiler context. i understand

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
On 6/21/12 1:40 AM, Michel Talon wrote: Second, FreeBSD is not a commercial company, and while this argument may have a merit for commercial sponsors of FreeBSD, it has zero bearing on FreeBSD itself. You seem to be unaware of what percentage of the development and maintenance staff and the

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Second, FreeBSD is not a commercial company, and while this argument may have a merit for commercial sponsors of FreeBSD, it has zero bearing on FreeBSD itself. You seem to be unaware of what percentage of the development and maintenance staff and the money to pay for them comes from those

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
On 6/21/12 10:08 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Second, FreeBSD is not a commercial company, and while this argument may have a merit for commercial sponsors of FreeBSD, it has zero bearing on FreeBSD itself. You seem to be unaware of what percentage of the development and maintenance staff and

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
We put clang because sponsors wanted it. Sponsors didn't want clang. Sponsors wanted not to be encumbered by a GPLv3 they are not. programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
On 6/21/12 10:16 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: We put clang because sponsors wanted it. Sponsors didn't want clang. Sponsors wanted not to be encumbered by a GPLv3 they are not. programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. Programs that link to GPLv3 libraries are encumbered.

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Robison, Dave
On 06/21/2012 10:08, Wojciech Puchar wrote: You seem to be unaware of what percentage of the development and maintenance staff and the money to pay for them comes from those commercial users. If FreeBSD cannot maintain the critical mass to continue, it will not continue. but why it isn't

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:16:31 -0500, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. This has not been decided in court yet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
they are not. programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. Programs that link to GPLv3 libraries are encumbered. you mean libgcc_s.so.1 and libstdc++? scanned /bin and /usr/bin and few programs do link it - all are C++ written. None IMHO are needed in closed-source system

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Because there's no reason to do that. It's an asinine suggestion. Clang is here to stay. Most of us are happy about that decision. GCC Because most that are not already stopped and ignored thing. and use GCC. Politics won. ___

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
z woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. This has not been decided in court yet. sources please! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:30:40 -0500, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: z woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. This has not been decided in court yet. sources please! Google GPLv3 court case. There are no

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
sources please! Google GPLv3 court case. There are no applicable results. Until a Judge decides what the license truly means everyone using it is at risk. true. But why anyone from FreeBSD fundation didn't just write official letter to GNU Free Software Foundation asking for just that

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:36:03 -0500, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: But why anyone from FreeBSD fundation didn't just write official letter to GNU Free Software Foundation asking for just that case? There needs to be a lawsuit and lawyers and judges need to be

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Robison, Dave
On 06/21/2012 10:30, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Because there's no reason to do that. It's an asinine suggestion. Clang is here to stay. Most of us are happy about that decision. GCC Because most that are not already stopped and ignored thing. and use GCC. Politics won. Excellent. We have a

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
On 6/21/12 10:36 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: sources please! Google GPLv3 court case. There are no applicable results. Until a Judge decides what the license truly means everyone using it is at risk. true. But why anyone from FreeBSD fundation didn't just write official letter to GNU Free

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Stas Verberkt
Mark Felder schreef op 21-06-2012 19:28: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:16:31 -0500, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. This has not been decided in court yet. Additionally, the exceptions for using the GCC runtime library

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Additionally, the exceptions for using the GCC runtime library for non-GPL executables is limited to what hey call eligible compilation processes, what rules out using proprietary GCC plugins or other combinations of core GCC functionality with non-GPL tooling and extensions. Please note

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Joe Gain
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Stas Verberkt lego...@legolasweb.nl wrote: Mark Felder schreef op 21-06-2012 19:28: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:16:31 -0500, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. This has not been decided

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
So, has anyone compared the performance of clang vs gcc compiled in daily use-- for example as a server? Anyone can cherry pick a couple of binaries, but how important is this for the performance of FreeBSD world? not big, as with almost any compiler. Most workload are dominated by cache

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Jun 21, 2012 11:23 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Additionally, the exceptions for using the GCC runtime library for non-GPL executables is limited to what hey call eligible compilation processes, what rules out using proprietary GCC plugins or other combinations

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
On 6/21/12 10:30 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: z woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. This has not been decided in court yet. sources please! Logical fallacy -- looking for a non-existence proof.

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:33:40 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: Google GPLv3 court case. There are no applicable results. Until a Judge decides what the license truly means everyone using it is at risk. As you've already been told it's not English it's Law I assume that there's not just one case

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:25:22AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: You're being paid to write a program for a customer. You i don't talk that case, but if i am hired to write some part of program as an employer in software company. There are basically four circumstances that might apply here,

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 06:11:46AM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: Snippet from Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com: I have some friends that develop software. They had released it under GNU umbrella. Later on, other folks were taking advantage and not giving back as the license

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-06-21 19:33, Mark Felder skrev: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:30:40 -0500, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: z woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. This has not been decided in court yet. sources please!

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-06-21 10:59, fred.mor...@gmail.com skrev: we have feelings too!!! Ouch! Another feeling person. Can't you just stop this feeling stuff. /sarcasm off ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: Le 21 juin 2012 à 03:52, kpn...@pobox.com a écrit : All of this may seem stupid to a reasonable person outside of law. I'll agree that it probably does look stupid. But it is also the reality of the legal systems we must

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
, ignoring a shit-ton of additional information about why Clang is better based on information that you have not only admitted not knowing about but proclaimed you have no interest in learning. You *refuse* to educate yourself about some of the subject matter that pertains to other benefits

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 07:30:23PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Because there's no reason to do that. It's an asinine suggestion. Clang is here to stay. Most of us are happy about that decision. GCC Because most that are not already stopped and ignored thing. and use GCC. Politics won.

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 22 June 2012 11:18:01 Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-06-21 10:59, fred.mor...@gmail.com skrev: we have feelings too!!! Ouch! Another feeling person. Can't you just stop this feeling stuff. do not forget the feelings regarding the devil. Erich

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-06-22 06:50, Erich Dollansky skrev: Hi, On Friday 22 June 2012 11:18:01 Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-06-21 10:59, fred.mor...@gmail.com skrev: we have feelings too!!! Ouch! Another feeling person. Can't you just stop this feeling stuff. do not forget the feelings regarding the devil.

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 22 June 2012 12:04:35 Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-06-22 06:50, Erich Dollansky skrev: On Friday 22 June 2012 11:18:01 Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-06-21 10:59, fred.mor...@gmail.com skrev: we have feelings too!!! Ouch! Another feeling person. Can't you just stop this feeling

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Does GPLv3 does force programs you compile with gcc to be GPLed? As far as I know, the main difference is that the GPLv3 is often called a viral license. Software linking against v3 libraries and so maybe

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Here[1] we can read a program linking agains a gpl v3 library should be released under the gplv3 too. However, the only concern would be when the program is implicitly linked against libgcc right? Well, there's even an exception[2] for this. this is exactly how i understand that. Anyway

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Here[1] we can read a program linking agains a gpl v3 library should be released under the gplv3 too. However, the only concern would be when the program is implicitly linked against libgcc right? Well, there's even an exception[2] for this. this is exactly how i

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The bad thing about GPLv3 is that if anyone commits any code under this license into the tree vendors that use our code base for making their own OSes will ditch FreeBSD as they can be sued by FSF. Juniper for example. It would be wise to listen to their point of view on GPLv3. not really

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Wojciech Puchar wrote: The bad thing about GPLv3 is that if anyone commits any code under this license into the tree vendors that use our code base for making their own OSes will ditch FreeBSD as they can be sued by FSF. Juniper for example. It would be wise to listen to their point of view on

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Stephen Cook
On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: BSDL in opposite is often criticized a rape me license. No, it is not, except perhaps by lying atheist Marxist bastards and his religious adherents. Please don't use atheist as a derogatory term. There are plenty of capitalistic

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Fred Morcos
I am also a newcomer and I agree with Stephen. But I guess the only way is to simply ignore those who make such statements. I don't see much benefit in arguing or reasoning with them. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Stephen Cook scli...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:04:47 +0200 Fred Morcos articulated: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Stephen Cook scli...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: BSDL in opposite is often criticized a rape me license. No, it is not, except perhaps by lying

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Jakub Lach
Really, this format of discussion is rather exception than rule (from my experience). Nothing wrong with productive flaming for me, but it's just not typical code of conduct in FreeBSD mailing list at all. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Why-Clang

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm a relative newcomer. Are the FreeBSD mailing lists always this flame-y? I no. it is temporary. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
A somewhat haphazardly search of the postings in this forum would seem to indicate that any post questioning the ethics or usefulness of FreeBSD as compared to other operating systems that elicit six or more strange but usefulness of FreeBSD wasn't questioned. By the way Fred, please don't

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Really, this format of discussion is rather exception than rule (from my experience). or rather - discussion is a rule :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
system compilers - this is the first one. But I believe it is a good proof, that clang is a serious alternative to gcc - else people would talk about an interesting project or something like that. Greetings Peter. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Why

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:48:15 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar articulated: A somewhat haphazardly search of the postings in this forum would seem to indicate that any post questioning the ethics or usefulness of FreeBSD as compared to other operating systems that elicit six or more

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Nothing wrong with productive flaming for me, but it's just not typical code of conduct in FreeBSD mailing list at all. Actually I can't remember any flame-war about system compilers - this is the first one. because such situation like now never happened - changing C compiler to much worse

Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-20 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 20 June 2012 12:59:51 Stephen Cook wrote: On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: [snip childish invective] I'm a relative newcomer. Are the FreeBSD mailing lists always this flame-y? I realize that this particular post might be trolling / satire No, they

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-20 Thread Fred Morcos
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Wednesday 20 June 2012 12:59:51 Stephen Cook wrote: On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: [snip childish invective] I'm a relative newcomer. Are the FreeBSD mailing lists always this flame-y?

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Polytropon wrote: I assume it's just an aspect of still being too young in regards of missing the difference between freedom and anarchy: the right to extend one's freedom is limited as soon as it limits the freedom of others. Maybe another aspect is the lack of discussion culture and the

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
They could be reduced by a combo. of eg: - forcible unsub, black list, - block of anon. remailer domains - making this list subscribtion required before posting. (which would make it harder for newbies fresh to FreeBSD, but we need some

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Reid Linnemann
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Nothing wrong with productive flaming for me, but it's just not typical code of conduct in FreeBSD mailing list at all. Actually I can't remember any flame-war about system compilers - this is the first

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it is only a proof that it was decided to put it as FreeBSD default compiler. Everything is said, explained and discusse why this decision is made.. So Explanation about the decision was already made isn't explanation. but i don't require any explanation. actually i don't require anything.

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have some friends that develop software. They had released it under GNU umbrella. Later on, other folks were taking advantage and not isn't it that once you release your own work as GPL you don't really own this and even you cannot use it in closed source software?

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:06:31 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have some friends that develop software. They had released it under GNU umbrella. Later on, other folks were taking advantage and not isn't it that once you release your own work as GPL you don't really own this and

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:06:31PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have some friends that develop software. They had released it under GNU umbrella. Later on, other folks were taking advantage and not isn't it that once you release your own work as GPL you don't really own this and even

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
isn't it that once you release your own work as GPL you don't really own this and even you cannot use it in closed source software? Releasing something as GPL does not mean you give up copyright. If I understood this whole thing correctly, I'm not a lawyer but i repeat what i've read time ago,

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
isn't it that once you release your own work as GPL you don't really own this and even you cannot use it in closed source software? When you license something, you still own the copyright. You can then release it under other licenses as well, and for versions you have modified you can release

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:57:17 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: from what i know (still, possibly incorrent) if i am hired as a programmer and write a program, this program belong to the company and i couldn't use it everywhere at least officially. That is highly debatable and mostly

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You're being paid to write a program for a customer. You i don't talk that case, but if i am hired to write some part of program as an employer in software company. So - if authors of any project, no matter how numerous, will all without exception agree that they want to get rid of GPL,

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:25:22 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: You're being paid to write a program for a customer. You i don't talk that case, but if i am hired to write some part of program as an employer in software company. Sorry, I misread the situation. In this case I assume that

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Polytropon, cc questions@ (No CC Wojciech P. as my local filters drop text from him ) To translate this to a programmer's job: You're being paid to write a program for a customer. You deliver the program. That's what you are paid for. Still the source code is yours (as _you_ are the

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Robert Bonomi
...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Why Clang On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:25:22 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: You're being paid to write a program for a customer. You i don't talk that case, but if i am hired to write some part of program as an employer in software company. Sorry, I misread

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Sorry, my last header wrongly to Mark Felder, could give the wrong impression. I would like Wojciech Puchar (not Mark F.) to stop banging on about 'GNU communist licence' etc. because you don't like facts. No you don't. You like what YOU (and

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
No you don't. You like what YOU (and ONLY you) think of as facts (see below). still not explained what is wrong in comparing end results of benchmark and seeing that they are quite same. This is the only meaningful point for me. I live ideology for others. Only facts? Well and good. Do you

Re: Why Clang?

2012-06-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
from David Naylor: I am the one who sends these persistent messages. Some users of my packages reported that wine didn't run due to a clang compiled world. I never verified them (although I got multiple reports). With the updates to clang it may have also been corrected. I attributed the

Re: Why Clang?

2012-06-19 Thread Robert Huff
Thomas Mueller writes: Now how will I know whether GCC or Clang is the default compiler for building the world and kernel, and for ports? My understanding is: 8.* base - gcc ports - gcc 9.0 (and possibly 9.*) base - gcc ports - clang

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Wojciech Puchar wrote: If you cannot see this - i cannot help you any more. sorry. Your noise is no help. Use appropriate lists. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Nomen Nescio
Only facts? Well and good. Do you have any proof GNU is in any way connected to any communist movement? Yes, see the Gnu Manifesto. Hint: it's named that way for a reason. Do you have any facts (NOT living in your head) GPLvX is in any way inspired/based on/even remotely connected to/ ANY

Re: Why Clang?

2012-06-19 Thread Joe Gain
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Thomas Mueller writes:  Now how will I know whether GCC or Clang is the default compiler  for building the world and kernel, and for ports?        My understanding is:        8.*        base - gcc        ports - gcc

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Michel Talon
David Brodbeck said: Another way of looking at it is after 25 years of optimization GCC is unable to beat a new compiler that's had almost none... Unfortunately this affirmation is blatantly false, recent gcc produce code much faster than clang. I give here an example which i like, a monte carlo

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Fred Morcos
I would also guess that the base system is stuck with gcc ~4.1 due to the GPLv3-ization of later gcc version. Is that correct? On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr wrote: David Brodbeck said: Another way of looking at it is after 25 years of optimization GCC is

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