-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/11/12 09:44, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Steve Kargl > <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: >> Interest twist of history. GCC is not abandonware. > > Correct, but GCC 4.2.1 is. >
While this may be true, I'm not inclined to move any of my gear to a platform which is built on a tool-chain which is described in terms such as .. "In particular, clang/LLVM presently fails to produce correct code for some operations, and is not performance competitive with gcc for any." - From the link (http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/errata.html#WhatComp) that Steve Kargl referenced (dated July 2012). While I appreciate the desire and need to move away from a legally encumbering environment, stability and maturity are both critical considerations. This is not to say that GCC 4.2.1 is either bug-free or sufficiently featureful as more modern versions but its idiosyncrasies are better known and understood, imb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlBPRlAACgkQQv9rrgRC1JLRUACeOGb8PryPla1yyhLeWzuVT4jM +JEAoIbn1IEed5oXR5+e9SCIfmfQ4V5R =ahHY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
