svn commit: r43536 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Wed Jan 15 04:06:39 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Wed Jan 15 04:06:38 2014
New Revision: 43536
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43536

Log:
  - Add a 2013Q4 report on base GCC
  
  Submitted by:	pfg

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Wed Jan 15 01:52:58 2014	(r43535)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Wed Jan 15 04:06:38 2014	(r43536)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 33 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 34 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
       March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -1834,4 +1834,42 @@ device vt_vga</pre>
 	taken for safekeeping, and 1 src bit was reactivated.</p>
     </body>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='bin'>
+    <title>Base GCC Updates</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Pedro</given>
+	  <common>Giffuni</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>pfg at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The GCC compiler in the &os; base system is on its way to
+	deprecation and is only used by some Tier-2 platforms at this
+	time.  While Clang is much better in many aspects, we still
+	cannot use in base all the new features it brings until we can
+	drop GCC completely.  As a stop-gap solution several bug fixes
+	and features from Apple GCC and other sources have been ported
+	to our version of GCC 4.2.1 to make it more compatible with
+	Clang.  &os;'s GCC has added more warnings and some enhancements
+	like <tt>-Wmost</tt> and <tt>-Wnewline-eof</tt>.  An
+	implementation for Apple's blocks extension is now available too
+	and it will be very useful to enhance &os;'s support for Apple's
+	Grand Central Dispatch (GCD).</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Merge from <tt>head</tt> to <tt>stable/9</tt> is being
+	considered but it disables nested functions by default so the
+	impact on ports has to be evaluated.</task>
+
+      <task>No further development of GCC 4.2 in the base system is
+	planned.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
