Re: [TESTING]: ClangBSD branch needs testing before the import to HEAD

From: b. f. <bf1783_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 08:13:55 +0000
Mark Linimon wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:18:41PM +0200, Alban Hertroys wrote:
>> Compiler bugs in gcc are probably just as hard to find as compiler bugs
>> in clang
>
>There are two types of compiler bug: a) bug that produces bad code; b)
>bug that makes the compiler crash.
>

Let's remember that the entire toolchain is important here, and not
just the compiler.  Some of the problems can be attributed to our old
binutils.

>For comparison, bitrot that is probably due to older ports not keeping
>up with compiler changes is at:
>
>http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portsconcordanceforbuilderror.py?build_error=gcc4_error
>

How did you obtain "gcc4-errors"?

We're not alone here: some major GNU/Linux distributions, NetBSD, and
DragonFlyBSD are using newer versions of binutils and/or gcc, so we
can look at their patches and error logs to fix some problems.

b.
Received on Fri Jun 04 2010 - 06:13:56 UTC

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