On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Aditya K <hiradi...@msn.com> wrote: > I was able to successfully bootstrap gcc by using clang as the stage 1 > compiler. I configured gcc using the following arguments. > > ../configure --disable-multilib --enable-bootstrap --enable-languages=c,c++ > CC=/work/llvm/install-release/bin/clang > CXX=/work/llvm/install-release/bin/clang++ > > And the bootstrap was successful. One useful thing I got to see was clang > warnings. Clang produced several warnings (> 1000 unique ones). I have > attached two files with this email. > 1. sorted list of warnings (summary only) > 2. complete build log. > > I want to know that is there any interest in resolving these warnings? I went > through the list a little bit and some warnings > appear to be quite useful. e.g. > > 1. warning: struct 'varpool_node' was previously declared as a class > [-Wmismatched-tags] > > 2. ../../gcc/cgraph.h../../gcc/wide-int.h::18881125::101:: warningwarning: : > class 'cgraph_node' was previously declared as a struct [-Wmismatch > ed-tags]'fixed_wide_int_storage' defined as a class template here but > previously declared as a struct template [-Wmismatched-tags]
These two are bogus and really clang in GCC's mind. The main reason is the standard says struct and class are the same thing. We are not going to fix these kind of issues in GCC sources since they don't really help. Thanks, Andrew
