[cfe-dev] problems when compiling FreeBSD world with clang

[Roman Divacky]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:58:43PM -0800, Daniel Dunbar wrote:
> Hi Roman,
> 
> The issue with designated initializers is well known, although not
> currently being worked on. See:
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2749
> 
> When I get a moment to do http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=3034
> (document C status) this will be high on the list.
> 
> Wide string support is probably more easily tackled, although it
> doesn't look like we have PR for it and no one is working on it as far
> as I know. Feel free to file a PR on the issue, preferably with simple
> test cases for the cases you care about.
 
great :) I am doing just that

> Its great that you are trying to push clang over such a large code
> base; thanks for trying this and reporting the issues you find! Do you
> have numbers on how many programs we are building (and out of how
> many)? And for the programs we build, are you trying to run them
> through any kind of tests to make sure we are compiling them
> correctly?

currently I am trying to build freebsd userland/kernel with clang 

witten ~# ls /bin/ /sbin/ /usr/bin/ /usr/sbin/  | wc -l
     890

there's a experimental build of FreeBSD ports (some 19000 programs) in queue

I am going to post a detailed report on these experiments. it just does not
make much sense now when 50 program fail and 35 because of 2 missing features
(the ones I just reported about - note that the numbers are guesses :) )

hth

roman