Clang as default compiler November 4th

[Patrick Lamaiziere]

Le Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:12:07 -0500,
Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> a écrit :

Hello,

> For the past several years we've been working towards migrating from
> GCC to Clang/LLVM as our default compiler.  We intend to ship FreeBSD
> 10.0 with Clang as the default compiler on i386 and amd64 platforms.
> To this end, we will make WITH_CLANG_IS_CC the default on i386 and
> amd64 platforms on November 4th.

Last time I've checked on 9.X [mid August, FreeBSD clang version 3.1
(branches/release_31 156863) 20120523], Clang still produces invalid
code (some nopl (%eax)) for the AMD Geode LX (i586 CPU found on some
ALIX board or Soekris NET5501). I don't know if this is also a concern
with older CPU (Pentium 2/1) ?

http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11212
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-October/028588.html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/168253

> What does the mean to you?

Well, I will not be able to run FreeBSD from scratch on my soekris :-)

Best regards.