Thoughts on llvm/clang in base

[B. Estrade]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 09:45:23PM +0200, Matthias Rampke wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:53 PM, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st> wrote:
> 
> >>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:39 PM, B. Estrade<estrabd at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Just throwing this out there, but one thing that made me sad about
> >>>> FreeBSD's dumping GCC as base was that it was also dumping OpenMP
> >>>> support.
> > Now, does OpenMP support require libGOMP?  Becaues that's not been built
> > right now.  Neither is libssp, which is the cause of a couple of package
> > failures so I am thinking about having libssp in base.
> 
> For me, building anything with gcc -fopenmp fails because it is
> missing libgomp. So as of now the base system doesn't do OpenMP with
> either gcc or clang :(

Yes, if not too much, it would be high advantageous to provide this
capability in the base compiler - particular an OS with SMP
scalability as a primary goal. I have never compiled an OpenMP program
on DFBSD, so I was making an assumption here.

Also, for example, Imagemagik can be build to take advantage of
OpenMP. I am sure there are others, particular when you get into the
math and science packages.

Cheers,
Brett

> 
> /matthiasr

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