Re: PCC and FreeBSD in the future?

From: David Leimbach <leimy2k_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:28:01 -0700
On 10/17/07, Roman Divacky <rdivacky_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:27:58PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > * Ed Schouten <ed_at_fxq.nl> wrote:
> > > One of the major obstacles for PCC is that it didn't support a way to
> > > pack structures in a comfortable way. Most of the FreeBSD userland
> just
> > > built with it. Most of the stuff that didn't compile properly, was
> > > related to kernel headers, using __attribute__ stuff, instead of the
> > > cdef'd stuff, like __packed. It seems things have changed in the mean
> > > time.
> >
> > Indeed; PCC now supports _Pragma("packed"). I've attached a patch for
> > sys/cdefs.h that should make at least src/bin compile like it should.
> > The patch is in no way meant to be complete.
>
> on the other hand llvm-gcc (and clang in the near future) compiles
> basically
> everything out of the box + its highly optimizing (yet still much faster
> than
> gcc) + BSD licensed.. ;)
>

It's derived from gcc yet BSD licensed?  Erm, how?
Received on Wed Oct 17 2007 - 19:54:41 UTC

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