[haiku-development] Re: Switch to Clang or GCC 4.9?

  • From: RISC <service.exchange@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:38:49 +0500

If not we will call mr.Putin with polite green mans and make referendum!


2014-04-25 15:36 GMT+05:00 RISC <service.exchange@xxxxxxxxx>:

> +1
> For drop gcc2 and BeOS Compatibility. For switch to gcc4 or clang!
>
>
> 2014-04-25 15:28 GMT+05:00 Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > On April 23, 2014 at 9:39 PM Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I doubt that anyone disagrees with having clang at least as an option.
>> > So I don't see how working on full support would be wasted time.
>> > Consequently no decision is necessary at this point.
>>
>> +1.
>> I think we definitely want to support Clang. But it's premature to predict
>> whether or not that means we will drop GCC support at some point.
>> If GCC will always produce better code than Clang, there is no point in
>> switching -- you just cannot know in advance how the two projects will
>> evolve.
>> However, IMO it's important to keep both compilers working, and also
>> having them
>> as an option under Haiku itself.
>>
>> Bye,
>>    Axel.
>>
>>
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>
> --
> With best regards RISC (aka HaikuBot)
>



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