November 5th is Clang-Day

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Fri Nov 2 04:59:23 UTC 2012


On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:29:45PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
>  - Not all libm tests pass.  More work by subject matter experts is
>    required to create tests cases for LLVM developers.  Most problems are
>    not expected to be major in practice given that LLVM is being used for
>    scientific computing in a number of products including Cray's FORTRAN
>    compiler, most OpenCL compilers, and the Julia language.

Is there a knob to continue to use GCC as the default compiler?  

The above statement is somewhat troubling to those of us
who use FreeBSD as computational nodes.

BTW, the name of the language is "Fortran".  It's been "Fortran"
for the last 30-something years.

-- 
Steve


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