Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 09:57:56 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Cc: amd64@FreeBSD.org, toolchain@FreeBSD.org, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com> Subject: Re: [CFT] gcc: support for barcelona Message-ID: <51A5A6F4.8000501@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3C29AD82-077D-4E6B-94C7-5D069A130348__27528.1591726982$1369769859$gmane$org@FreeBSD.org> References: <51A38CBD.6000702@FreeBSD.org> <E9DC99EF-F2E9-4A5F-8370-36DA25DE2C89@felyko.com> <51A3B8AB.5080808@FreeBSD.org> <521EEFA1-E116-41F5-B618-238E7AA092A8@bsdimp.com> <3C29AD82-077D-4E6B-94C7-5D069A130348__27528.1591726982$1369769859$gmane$org@FreeBSD.org>
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on 28/05/2013 21:10 David Chisnall said the following: > On 28 May 2013, at 18:40, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > >> That's not going to happen soon. While it works OK for amd64, there's still >> many bugs in its ARM support and even more in its MIPS support. There's 0 >> chance it will be gone in 10... > > I disagree. There is a significant chance that gcc in base will be gone for > all Tier 1 platforms in 10.0. There are still some reasons to want gcc > installed, but there are no compelling reasons to want an ancient version of > gcc installed on x86[-64] or ARM. For people who need gcc, the ports > collection provides a selection of recent versions. I will try to veto any attempt to do so until at least this bug is fixed: http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15662 I am sure that other developers have their favorite bugs too. In fact, I am of opinion that while such bugs exist gcc should be crowned back as a default compiler. -- Andriy Gapon
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