On Wed Jan 5 11, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 2:59:20 pm Doug Barton wrote: > > On 01/05/2011 10:59, Alexander Best wrote: > > > > > judging from the discussion going on right now it seems those flags will > > > be > > > grouped together to form a new variable. so things will probably change > > > shortly > > > and fixing the order is probably not necessary. > > > > Much better to fix the problem properly now than to rely on future work > > that may or may not happen. I realize that you alluded to this later in > > your message, but I think as a general principle this is worth reinforcing. > > > > > some people have proposed hacking into clang which i personally think is > > > a very > > > bad idea. why not contact the clang developers? they might like the idea > > > of a > > > switch disabling all advanced extensions for every architecture? > > > > I agree with this. We have a very awkward situation right now with lots > > of local hacks in our version of gcc that in an ideal world we would not > > replicate with clang; particularly considering the much lower barrier to > > entry when it comes to contributing things back. > > My suggestion was that we ask clang to add a '-mno-whatever' and hopefully we > could convince gcc to follow suit. clang developers seem to be fairly > receptive, so I was hoping one of our clang liaisons could suggest it. :)
why gcc? even if they decide to add such a switch it will be gpl3'ed. shouldn't gcc with clang at hand be considered legacy software? cheers. alex ps: btw there is a patch in GNATS which bumps base gcc to the very last revision which didn't include gplv3. i think the patch fixes quite a few issues: 153298. also it seems apple is maintaining a gcc branch which has a lot of improvements, yet it is based on gcc 4.2.1 and thus licensed under gplv2. i'm not sure if it is avalable somewhere, but having a peek at the changes they made would in fact be nice. still i don't think tackling base gcc is worth the hassle, since that time could be spent much better improving clang. > > -- > John Baldwin -- a13x _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
