It seems that Clang is gaining more support...

[pkubaj]

Minix 3.2.0 has just been released with Clang being the default compiler :e

Changelog is at http://wiki.minix3.org/en/MinixReleases

 

[YZMSQ]

It still has a long way to go.

 

[pkubaj]

Yes, but it's nice to see it's not only for FreeBSD and OSX (as the default compiler). A while ago, some Fedora devs also talked about replacing GCC with LLVM / Clang. Things are moving in a good direction.

 

[YZMSQ]

Yes, but it's nice to see it's not only for FreeBSD and OSX (as the default compiler). A while ago, some Fedora devs also talked about replacing GCC with LLVM / Clang. Things are moving in a good direction.

Well, "replacing GCC with LLVM / Clang" isn't that trivial as replacing your mobile phone with a new one. I mean, many apps in Unix world are developed with GCC in a long run, using too many GCC-only extensions, which makes it difficult to embrace the LLVM/Clang world.

 

[fonz]

using too many GCC-only extensions

Ugh. One of the things I've always disliked about gcc x(

 

[troberts]

Well, "replacing GCC with LLVM / Clang" isn't that trivial as replacing your mobile phone with a new one. I mean, many apps in Unix world are developed with GCC in a long run, using too many GCC-only extensions, which makes it difficult to embrace the LLVM/Clang world.

While LLVM/Clang can't replace GCC completely right now, it does appear to have hit a "tipping point" where projects can look at LLVM/Clang as a serious alternative. As the various projects figure out what does not compile, and why, then they know what to work on to get LLVM/Clang to compile.

Update: The rebuild of the Debian archive (15,658 packages) was done with Clang 3.0 with a failure of 1381 packages (8.8%), which is down from 14.5% using Clang 2.9.

 

[xibo]

Update: The rebuild of the Debian archive (15,658 packages) was done with Clang 3.0 with a failure of 1381 packages (8.8%), which is down from 14.5% using Clang 2.9.

Looks like we outperform Debian by some percents : FreeBSD Ports statistics

I have already successfully built qt-4.8.0 some time ago with system clang and there have been numerous clang-patches to the kde-freebsd repository, so our figures will probably improve considerably when kde-4.8.1 and qt-4.8 hit ports in a few days.