svn commit: r276485 - in head/sys: conf dev/cxgbe modules/cxgbe/if_cxgbe

[Pedro Giffuni]

On 01/20/15 22:06, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 20 January 2015 at 18:19, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 07:50:23PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>>> But the fix is rather ugly, isn't it? I would personally prefer to just
>>> kill the older gcc but in the meantime updating it so that it behaves
>>> like the updated gcc/clang would be better. IMHO.
>> Seconded.  Putting extra harness on the code to avoid bugs in the compiler
>> that were actually fixed upsteam is totally bogus.
> Right, but:
>
> * not all of us work on compilers;
> * not all of us want to currently be working on compilers;
> * some of us have to use the gcc that's in tree;
> * .. and apparently updating that gcc to something > 4.2 is verboten.

The external toolchain can't be that bad(?).

> So if someone wants to help Navdeep by backporting those options,

Hmm .. didn't I post a patch?

> please do. I bet he'd love the help.
>
Ugh he doesn't and TBH, I don't care enough to look for
consensus either.

I find it interesting, and even funny that even the extreme
copyleft are predicting clang will take over gcc:

http://youtu.be/-ItFjEG3LaA

Cheers,

Pedro.

>
> -adrian
>