patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Aug 29 16:02:58 UTC 2013


On Aug 27, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 08/25/13 18:41, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
>>> I object. Many ports that compiles perfectly on gcc 4.2.1 can't be 
>>> compiled with lang/gcc. I checked this once and the number of ports 
>>> that require strictly gcc 4.2.1 was bigger for me then number of 
>>> ports that can't be compiled with clang but fill fine on lang/gcc.
>>> 
>>> I'll gonna recheck whether lang/gcc42 is sufficient for them. But I 
>>> have that bad feeling...
>> If there are ports that use USE_GCC=any and do not build with
>> lang/gcc, these should have USE_GCC=4.2 -- without a '+'! --
>> not USE_GCC=any.
>> 
>> It'll be great if you can fix any such port.
> 
> It would be particularly nice if we had a port with FreeBSD's many
> patches to 4.2. lang/gcc42 (and 46 and lang/gcc) do not build on
> powerpc64, for example, while our in-tree GCC does.

I think it would be more than "nice" to have. I'd argue that these issues need to be addressed before we can claim to have a full external-supported toolchain story that's integrated and well tested and covers the needs of all our users.

Warner



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