Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 15:17:41 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, "re@FreeBSD.org Engineering Team" <re@freebsd.org>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, toolchain@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc Message-ID: <CE2DCF04-3E81-4FFB-AEB4-CD788420D84E@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOFF%2BZ1bAr4M5BM2=QKGz0D-3OHhHoTCUv8qRmxnsvz2gd64-Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <20130822200902.GG94127@funkthat.com> <105E26EE-8471-49D3-AB57-FBE2779CF8D0@FreeBSD.org> <CAE-m3X324rbdP_C=az4eO-EkMcR-yFAeRG7S4q%2BMUsnMezGddw@mail.gmail.com> <5CE4B5FA-9DA0-45E4-8D67-161E0829FE6B@FreeBSD.org> <5217DBAB.5030607@freebsd.org> <86032E72-A569-4946-B4F8-26F687067B31@bsdimp.com> <1380949A-254A-4222-BEDE-0C23E16E4F67@freebsd.org> <8C31A000-6806-4291-98A4-E8291E637BD2@bsdimp.com> <CAJ-Vmo=p%2B81StQoHAKV-xHueNc7oRzsmm4a-5FuvK2qHX%2BWKXA@mail.gmail.com> <CAOFF%2BZ1bAr4M5BM2=QKGz0D-3OHhHoTCUv8qRmxnsvz2gd64-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Aug 24, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >=20 >=20 >=20 > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> = wrote: > You know, I could be a total jerk and say: >=20 > "If you push gcc out to a port, and you have the 'external compiler' > toolchain support working correctly enough to build with this, why = don't we > just push clang out to a port, and be done with it?" >=20 > ... just saying. >=20 > +1 >=20 > GREAT idea!!! that is a better plan for 11.x=20 This is a stupid idea. It kills the tightly integrated nature of = FreeBSD. I'd say it is far too radical a departure and opens up a huge = can of "which version of what compiler" nightmare that we've largely = dodged to date because we had one (or maybe two) compilers in the base = system. Warner
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