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The main reason for moving to clang is to remove as much GPL code from *BSD as possible (kernel and system libs). You are correct regarding many of the 'ports'
by dazzawazza 16y ago
The main reason for moving to clang is to remove as much GPL code from *BSD as possible (kernel and system libs).
You are correct regarding many of the 'ports' (packaging system) though as there will no doubt be some GCC idiosyncratic code in many of them.
- X-Istence 16y agoOn the ports build clusters they are doing experimental runs using -CURRENT with clang/LLVM as the only compiler for the ports tree in an attempt to weed out what would be broken and what will work without changes. So this is definitely something they are already testing.