Re: patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 15:17:41 -0600
On Aug 24, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> You know, I could be a total jerk and say:
> 
> "If you push gcc out to a port, and you have the 'external compiler'
> toolchain support working correctly enough to build with this, why don't we
> just push clang out to a port, and be done with it?"
> 
> ... just saying.
> 
> +1
> 
> GREAT idea!!! that is a better plan for 11.x 

This is a stupid idea. It kills the tightly integrated nature of FreeBSD. I'd say it is far too radical a departure and opens up a huge can of "which version of what compiler" nightmare that we've largely dodged to date because we had one (or maybe two) compilers in the base system.

Warner
Received on Sat Aug 24 2013 - 19:17:45 UTC

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