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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:03:35 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        toolchain@FreeBSD.org, "re@FreeBSD.org Engineering Team" <re@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc
Message-ID:  <52175DA7.7030908@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <422728FC-CE88-4AEF-AD10-3BF8910A2109@FreeBSD.org>
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on 23/08/2013 15:56 David Chisnall said the following:
> So you don't want a working debugger?  Our gdb doesn't work at all on MIPS
> and barely works with code compiled with clang or a recent gcc.

I am capable of using devel/gdb.  Or do you mean kernel debugger?

> We are
> planning on importing LLDB soon (Ed Maste has been working on it, funded by
> the FreeBSD Foundation), and it is a C++11 code base.  It will not build with
> our gcc or with our libstdc++ (and, in fact, since it uses the LLVM
> libraries, will require LLVM in base to link libc++).

There are multiple possible solutions to this issue.
And note that I do support having clang in base and it being the default in head.

> Or perhaps you don't care about flattened device trees.

To be honest - no, I don't care about them.

> The device tree
> compiler that we have in base is written in C++ and contains numerous
> occurrences of ugly code to make it work with old compilers.  I will be very
> happy to remove a load of hacks once C++11 support is available in the base
> system (not for 10.0, as dtc is used on a lot of tier 2 archs where gcc is
> still default).


-- 
Andriy Gapon



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