Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> 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 habit to use GCC over Clang? I think it's just habit, plus the fact that histoorically GCC has been very portable to different architectures, which is something that we care a lot about. Using different compilers on different architectures is a little nerve-wracking, since one can then easily get problems not easily reproduced on common architectures. Clang does have some nice advantages over GCC, so being able to use either is a good project, but I'm not sure it makes sense to start building a lot of software with it. That said, if the software prefers Clang as the compiler upstream, there probably isn't anything inherently wrong with it either. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87bnoun9b8....@hope.eyrie.org
