Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:33:02 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clang - what is the story? Message-ID: <20120122203302.GA90962@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <20120122123748.GA26579@hemlock.hydra> References: <4F1AAB66.5070100@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120121133506.7bcfaec9@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120121154313.53d3fec6@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120122070205.GA13081@hemlock.hydra> <4F1BB640.2050707@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120122074558.GA22918@hemlock.hydra> <4F1BD17C.3030209@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120122123748.GA26579@hemlock.hydra>
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--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:37:48AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > PCC (Portable C Compiler), meanwhile, spent many years essentially unused PCC is only a C compiler, and there is some C++ code (e.g. groff) in the ba= se system. The FreeBSD port is marked as i386 and amd64 only, even though other architectures seem to be there in the PCC source. > actually know that for sure -- is The Amsterdam Compiler Kit, sometimes According to [http://tack.sourceforge.net/about.html], the ACK doesn't supp= ort all architectures that FreeBSD does. Nor does it list FreeBSD as a supported platform.=20 Personally I think it is a good thing to have different C compilers. In the past I've installed pcc just to see if my programs compiled OK. Now I tend = to use clang for that. It does a great job of identifying programming errors. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk8ccn4ACgkQEnfvsMMhpyV6kACgg58fibNLqgOHz/K1NxM+4tYv zMkAniwfG/YRbrjDjHnma2h/MtXZJ4md =4YyO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--
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