Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?)

[Pedro F. Giffuni]

> From: Roman Divacky
> 
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 07:22:38PM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> > FWIW,
> > 
> > I had some informal talk with brooks@ about this at EuroBSDCon:
> > 
> > - groff(1) needs a C++ compiler so clang is not (yet) an option  for the time 
> being we will have to live with GCC or llvm-gcc.
> 
> I guess once the switch happens we are going to live for some with both
> gcc and clang/llvm. I also guess that by the time the switch happens
> clang is going to be full C++ capable :)

I think it's more realistic to move to gcc-llvm first and then to clang: testing gcc-llvm helps test the llvm capabilities that clang will require to be a viable replacement. In any case, before doing such a thing an experimental run of the ports tree with the alternative compiler would prove very valuable to the developers.

Pedro.