[CFT] gcc: support for barcelona

[Andriy Gapon]

on 28/05/2013 21:10 David Chisnall said the following:
> On 28 May 2013, at 18:40, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
>> That's not going to happen soon. While it works OK for amd64, there's still
>> many bugs in its ARM support and even more in its MIPS support. There's 0
>> chance it will be gone in 10...
> 
> I disagree.  There is a significant chance that gcc in base will be gone for
> all Tier 1 platforms in 10.0.  There are still some reasons to want gcc
> installed, but there are no compelling reasons to want an ancient version of
> gcc installed on x86[-64] or ARM.  For people who need gcc, the ports
> collection provides a selection of recent versions.

I will try to veto any attempt to do so until at least this bug is fixed:
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15662
I am sure that other developers have their favorite bugs too.

In fact, I am of opinion that while such bugs exist gcc should be crowned back
as a default compiler.
-- 
Andriy Gapon