how long to keep support for gcc on x86?

[Adrian Chadd]

IMHO gcc shuld be available until all of the platforms that we
currently ship FreeBSD on gets clang support.

This includes MIPS (which is there, but I don't think the default MIPS
build uses clang at the moment) and ia64, which Marcel has been
dutifully working on.

Please also note that people can and will compile FreeBSD on a
non-default-system compiler ; so deprecating gcc (either support or
framework) should be considered carefully.




Adrian


On 12 January 2013 17:42, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 03:31:47PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>> So, now that -current x86 is defaulting to clang, how much longer do we
>> need to support gcc on platforms that default to clang?
>
> IMHO, gcc should be available until after 10.0 is branched.
>
>> I'm asking because clang support AES-NI, but gcc does not...
>
> The last and only time I had for testing clang's handling
> of floating point revealed that clang had a few bugs and
> performance issues.
>
> --
> Steve
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