> On Nov 4, 2019, at 6:18 AM, Kurt Mosiejczuk <k...@cranky.work> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 10:06:52PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 02:32:03AM +0900, Daniel Dickman wrote:
>>>> clang doesn't error out, gcc does.
>>>> Why does numpy use gcc?
>
>>> Because that's what upstream recommends in their docs.
>
>>> 'Note that NumPy is developed mainly using GNU compilers. Compilers
>>> from other vendors such as Intel, Absoft, Sun, NAG, Compaq, Vast,
>>> Portland, Lahey, HP, IBM, Microsoft are only supported in the form
>>> of community feedback, and may not work out of the box. GCC 4.x (and
>>> later) compilers are recommended.'
>
>>> See: https://numpy.org/devdocs/user/building.html
>
>> That's probably not a good enough reason, especially considering how
>> many security improvements are in base clang as opposed to base gcc...
>
> That page may be out of date, too. It says Python 2.7 is supported,
> whereas the 1.17.x release no longer support Python 2.7.
Kurt, please feel to take it up with upstream not me.
>
> --Kurt
>
