Re: patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc

On 8/23/13 8:26 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 23/08/2013 14:06 David Chisnall said the following:
>> Our gcc is from 2007.  It has no C11, no C++11 support.  It has bugs in its
>> atomic generation so you can't use it sensibly without lots of inline
>> assembly (which it doesn't support for newer architectures) for
>> multithreaded things.
>>
>> Our libstdc++ is ancient and doesn't work with modern C++ codebases.
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
+1

I'd like to see it still be "there if you need it" in 10

in 11 it's in ports