GSoC: Making ports work with clang

Eitan Adler eitanadlerlist at gmail.com
Sun May 2 20:17:31 UTC 2010


> Having tried clang++ I have a feeling that it's not quite ready to be a
> generic c++ compiler.
> It crashes a lot, fails on many quite simple c++ patterns. Very immature.
> Don't you feel it's too early to start project like you are going to given
> the state of clang with c++?
> You will just keep stumbling upon various problems with various ports and
> maybe will make 30% of c++ ports build with it at best.
Good - and those 30% of ports will help improve clang++ even more.
Hopefully over time that number will increase to 100% and we will be
able to say goodbye to gcc for good.


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