From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2016, #07; Thu, 25) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:17:48 -0800 Message-ID: References: <56D078F3.9070905@web.de> <56D0D2DF.1040807@web.de> <20160227032907.GB10313@sigill.intra.peff.net> <56D14C56.6070306@web.de> <20160229101808.GD2950@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Jeff King , Torsten =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen?= , Git List To: Eric Sunshine X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 29 18:17:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aaRSI-0000fY-JD for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:17:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752716AbcB2RRy (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:17:54 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp0.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.35]:65244 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752041AbcB2RRx (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:17:53 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0305447AEA; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:17:51 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=7NTof+RSHdfJx91VdvgWtt9n0FQ=; b=i0b4GO yXpzBM7kuqChou9zKsgP+4PD3P00Pz8eUHfriQ8wVuWO2Fej7qOcG5b4rXsT05CJ tjLLAhgOQwDO9L5JCY5pg4uVorxtGPTHADVmqkMVmTPO6S4st8biak030um++5GN Fi8ye91qxI7O2uvRzHnNhtOjv93Dm07uNHYT0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=B6dKKqKsqTT8pj+jJxwDOyTJribAuJNd RdXC+fPymj1lbYfa9bZMBvPBt9n/oZIqUmmpnqUoO0bf8Zt0OANk2QYicIQasN2w Twlx+SaQjhIuo4HTkxyHo8/z+ogdLSx0nB3Kzo8JeR3znwHcTJ8BLXRKKq3IEpqA xNW9faAfS+g= Received: from pb-smtp0.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC77947AE9; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:17:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.1.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5937A47AE8; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:17:50 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eric Sunshine's message of "Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:28:41 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 5C2C2F56-DF08-11E5-90C5-79226BB36C07-77302942!pb-smtp0.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Eric Sunshine writes: >> Your suggestion elsewhere in the thread to just use clang instead sounds >> good to me. :) > > If possible, for the moment, I'd prefer to hold off on that > sledge-hammer approach of unconditionally making the build use clang. > It would be nice to have a more detailed understanding of what exactly > is triggering the Apple compiler bug, and I've been trying to find > time to check it out on my old Mac. The (fixed) patch posted was "on OSX 10.6, use clang by default"; I think that for majority of the users, that is a reasonable thing to do. The result of the patch still allows those who want to see how badly old Gcc breaks to do so with "make CC=gcc", doesn't it?