patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc
Andriy Gapon
avg at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 23 12:26:53 UTC 2013
on 23/08/2013 14:06 David Chisnall said the following:
> Our gcc is from 2007. It has no C11, no C++11 support. It has bugs in its
> atomic generation so you can't use it sensibly without lots of inline
> assembly (which it doesn't support for newer architectures) for
> multithreaded things.
>
> Our libstdc++ is ancient and doesn't work with modern C++ codebases.
On the other hand these tools are perfect for building FreeBSD kernel and base.
Extrapolating my experience with base GCC I am very confident in it as a
FreeBSD development tool.
Extrapolating my experience with Clang I am not yet confident in it as a
FreeBSD development tool.
I do not care about C11, C++11 and modern C++ codebases. I care about what's
in /usr/src and what gets compiled by buildkernel/buildworld. That's just me,
of course. But, OTOH, those who care modern C++ codebases should be perfectly
capable to install a compiler from ports or switch to clang as their default
compiler.
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Andriy Gapon
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