GSoC: Making ports work with clang

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2010-May-03 16:33:19 +0300, Andrius Morkūnas <hinokind at gmail.com> wrote:
>I wasn't talking about any specific port. What I meant is that new hardware
>won't stop coming out just because FreeBSD decided not to update their gcc.
>New CPUs may have new instructions and other things that are different from
>their predecessors in one way or another.

As an example of an increasingly common CPU that gcc 4.2 doen't
support, consider the Intel Atom.  It supports the 'Core' (ie up to
SSSE3) instructions but only does in-order execution (like the
Pentium 1).

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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