gcc

[Antonio Olivares]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Gary Dunn <knowtree at aloha.com> wrote:
> Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn <knowtree at aloha.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it is
>>4.2.1.
>>> The ports tree has newer, up to 4.7.0 dated 19 Mar 2011.
>>>
>>
>>Probably never, as GPL 3 code isn't allowed in the base system.
> ...
>
> Can someone point me to an official position statement on this ban on GPL3 code in FreeBSD? Doesn't seem right to me. And please, no GPL flame wars.
> --
>

Clang/LLVM has an active development base and a clear future

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2010-05/msg00409.html

Not official, but this may be of help?

http://wiki.freebsd.org/201005ToolchainSummitSummary

Hope this helps in some way.

Regards,

Antonio