[cfe-dev] fink defaulting to clang for Lion

[Jack Howarth]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:35:52AM -0700, Eli Friedman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> >  Just to let everyone know that we should shortly be getting some
> > exhaustive testing of clang 3.0svn from darwin. Today my patches for
> > defaulting fink (http://finkproject.org) to use the clang compiler for
> > cc/gcc and clang++ for c++/g++ on Lion has been checked into fink cvs.
> > So far in my own testing, clang 3.0svn has been holding up very well
> > with no codegen regressions except...
> >
> > http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=9684
> >
> > which is a problem common to both llvm-gcc and clang (so I assume
> > the issue lies in llvm).
> 
> Good to see things aren't exploding left and right. :)
> 
> I'll try to take a look at the bug you pointed out...
> 
> -Eli

Eli,
   Actually I built quite a lot and have really only run into language compliance
issues. Fortunately FSF gcc is slowly converging on the same strictness as clang for
language syntax so these issues won't be a clong-only problem.
              Jack