svn commit: r47572 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Thu Oct 15 20:50:45 UTC 2015

Author: emaste (src committer)
Date: Thu Oct 15 20:50:43 2015
New Revision: 47572
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47572

Log:
  Add Clang/LLVM 3.7.0 report from dim@

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Thu Oct 15 20:20:00 2015	(r47571)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Thu Oct 15 20:50:43 2015	(r47572)
@@ -700,7 +700,91 @@
     <sponsor>
       The FreeBSD Foundation
     </sponsor>
-</project>
+  </project>
+
+  <project cat='proj'>
+    <title>Clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ updated to 3.7.0</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+        <name>
+          <given>Dimitry</given>
+          <common>Andric</common>
+        </name>
+        <email>dim at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+      <person>
+        <name>
+          <given>Ed</given>
+          <common>Maste</common>
+        </name>
+        <email>emaste at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+      <person>
+        <name>
+          <given>Roman</given>
+          <common>Divacky</common>
+        </name>
+        <email>rdivacky at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+      <person>
+        <name>
+          <given>Davide</given>
+          <common>Italiano</common>
+        </name>
+        <email>davide at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">LLVM 3.7.0 Release Notes</url>
+      <url href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html">Clang 3.7.0 Release Notes</url>
+      <url href="bugs.freebsd.org/201377">PR 201377 Ports exp-run</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+
+      <p>We have updated clang, llvm, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++
+	in base to 3.7.0 release.
+	These all contain numerous improvements; please see the linked
+	release notes for more detailed information.
+	This brings us completely up-to-date with the latest upstream
+	versions of these projects.  Meanwhile, &a.emaste; is working
+	on importing the llvm.org version of libunwind.</p>
+
+      <p>Like the 3.5.x and 3.6.x releases, these components require
+	C++11 support to build.  At this point, FreeBSD 10.0 and later
+	provide that support, at least on x86.
+	Currently, there are no solid plans to MFC these versions to
+	any stable branches, due to the difficulties this would
+	introduce for the usual upgrade scenarios.</p>
+
+      <p>Thanks to &a.emaste; and &a.andrew; for their help with this
+	import, and thanks to &a.antoine; for several ports exp-runs.
+      </p>
+
+      <p>During the first ports exp-run, some major problems were
+	found, one introduced by a clang bug which caused pow() to
+	generate floating point exceptions in some cases, which in
+	turn caused libpng to fail to build, and one bug in
+	libjpeg-turbo, which was caused by undefined behavior.
+	These two problems took some time to fix, after which another
+	exp-run was done, and this resulted in about a dozen newly
+	failed ports.  For almost all of these new failures, fixes
+	were submitted, and linked to the original PR 201377 for
+	the exp-run.</p>
+
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	Commit ports fixes for dependencies of PR 201377.
+      </task>
+      <task>
+	Test and report issues with the new tool chain.
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 
   <project cat='misc'>
     <title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>
