On 23 Aug 2013, at 13:26, Andriy Gapon <a...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On the other hand these tools are perfect for building FreeBSD kernel and > base. > Extrapolating my experience with base GCC I am very confident in it as a > FreeBSD development tool. > Extrapolating my experience with Clang I am not yet confident in it as a > FreeBSD development tool.
Nathan has already dealt with this. > I do not care about C11, C++11 and modern C++ codebases. I care about what's > in /usr/src and what gets compiled by buildkernel/buildworld. That's just me, > of course. But, OTOH, those who care modern C++ codebases should be perfectly > capable to install a compiler from ports or switch to clang as their default > compiler. So you don't want a working debugger? Our gdb doesn't work at all on MIPS and barely works with code compiled with clang or a recent gcc. We are planning on importing LLDB soon (Ed Maste has been working on it, funded by the FreeBSD Foundation), and it is a C++11 code base. It will not build with our gcc or with our libstdc++ (and, in fact, since it uses the LLVM libraries, will require LLVM in base to link libc++). Or perhaps you don't care about flattened device trees. The device tree compiler that we have in base is written in C++ and contains numerous occurrences of ugly code to make it work with old compilers. I will be very happy to remove a load of hacks once C++11 support is available in the base system (not for 10.0, as dtc is used on a lot of tier 2 archs where gcc is still default). David _______________________________________________ freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-toolchain-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
