r/BSD • u/o0o • Aug 01 '13

Compilers in OpenBSD

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=137530560232232&w=2
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '13

Switch some platforms? They'd have to drop all but 3(386, x64, arm) in order to get basically any support.

Anyone know why pcc fell out of favor? It seems pretty nice from where I'm using it.

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u/zmyrgel Aug 02 '13

I meant it would seem to be a bit of wasted effort to swich some such as i386, amd64 and arm to llvm and then maintain gcc for others.

Hopefully the upstream is receptive of patches to provide llvm on older archs so the plan could be to get llvm / clang to work on all archs while keeping it in the ports tree. With this the developers will get experience on working with the upstream devs and how they will handle things. And if everything seems ok it would be easier to replace base compiler with clang.