Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)

2014-10-29 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 05:02:11PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-10-28 17:20:02) at debian-vote@l.d.o > > For the compiler, all of Debian is built with GCC, but some teams do > > test builds with Clang and report bugs, which most maintainers merge > > and some don't.

Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)

2014-10-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Speaking of which: Is it Policy or just habit to use GCC over Clang? gcc still generates better machine code than clang in the *general* case for C source (I don't know about the rest). There is no policy to use gcc: if your program builds better usi

Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)

2014-10-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jonas Smedegaard: > Speaking of which: Is it Policy or just habit to use GCC over Clang? > Well, when Debian was started, clang didn't even exist – also, for a long time it wasn't compatible with quite a few GCCisms in our sources and/or rules files. -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: building against Clang

2014-10-29 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 29/10/2014 17:02, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-10-28 17:20:02) at debian-vote@l.d.o >> For the compiler, all of Debian is built with GCC, but some teams do >> test builds with Clang and report bugs, which most maintainers merge >> and some don't. > > Speaking of which:

Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)

2014-10-29 Thread Gert Wollny
On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 17:02 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > doxygen (and a very few others) links against libclang1-3.5 > "where available" according to the changelog, ... > libllvm3.5 is also used for another few, including mesa. It's not so much a question whether these packages are compiled

Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)

2014-10-29 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-10-28 17:20:02) at debian-vote@l.d.o >> For the compiler, all of Debian is built with GCC, but some teams do >> test builds with Clang and report bugs, which most maintainers merge >> and some don't. > > Speaking

Re: building against Clang

2014-10-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-10-28 17:20:02) at debian-vote@l.d.o >> For the compiler, all of Debian is built with GCC, but some teams do >> test builds with Clang and report bugs, which most maintainers merge >> and some don't. > Speaking of which: Is it Policy or just

Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)

2014-10-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-10-28 17:20:02) at debian-vote@l.d.o > For the compiler, all of Debian is built with GCC, but some teams do > test builds with Clang and report bugs, which most maintainers merge > and some don't. Speaking of which: Is it Policy or just habit to use GCC over Clang? I