[cfe-dev] RFC: A proposal to move toward using C++11 features in LLVM & Clang / bounding support for old host compilers

[David Chisnall]

On 27 Oct 2013, at 09:31, Benjamin Kramer <benny.kra at gmail.com> wrote:

> - Freebsd 10 is on Clang/libc++ by default, FreeBSD 9 also shipped Clang. Don't see problems here.

Note that this is only for x86 and ARM.  For PowerPC64 and MIPS, which look as if they'll be supported by LLVM/Clang soon (we now have PowerPC64 working, but the kernel must be compiled at -O0 or it doesn't boot, MIPS is still quite buggy, but getting there), we're still shipping gcc 4.2.1.  These are tier 2 platforms, so we could cross-compile the toolchain from x86 for bootstrapping, but it would be quite painful.

David