On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 02:52:20PM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Den 11/09/2012 kl. 14.38 skrev Roman Divacky <rdiva...@freebsd.org>: > > By the nature of "developing the OS" we are forced to use compilers and > > toolchains. Recently I saw you submitting/committing patches with .byte > > sequences because our default assembler cant handle the instructions. > > I saw jhb@ updating binutils to support invept/invvpid. > > > > In my eyes, switching to clang by default lowers the compiler/toolchain > > maintenance burden we have. > > I agree. Switching away from abandonware to a compiler that > is actively maintained is a good thing.
Interest twist of history. GCC is not abandonware. I can assure you GCC development is very much alive. The abandonment of GCC was a FreeBSD developers/community decision. -- Steve _______________________________________________ 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"
