Fedora To Remain Monogamist Towards GCC

[droidhacker]

Has nobody noticed that this nonsense is all about licensing?
LLVM is licensed basically BSD, which is why BSD's will prefer it -- it allows for anti-competitve use.
GCC is GPL.

[Awesomeness]

If you read part of the log it will be clear to you that the statement in favour of GCC is only valid for stand alone toolchain compilers like clang. For JIT purposes llvm is still the way to go, otherwise they also would have to ditch llvmpipe is MESA, which is not what will happen.

I've read the log and yes, in context it's clear. However, there was a one sentence long policy voted upon which does not have any references to that. (?Packages may only build with an alternative compiler to gcc if upstream does not support gcc?)

And no LLVMpipe is not used to produce any packages. The policy as it was voted, seems to ban OpenJDK/IcedTea for all uses that GCC?s Java compiler can handle.

[Lynxeye]

Looks like they accidentally banned OpenJDK/IcedTea in favor of GCC?s Java compiler?

If you read part of the log it will be clear to you that the statement in favour of GCC is only valid for stand alone toolchain compilers like clang. For JIT purposes llvm is still the way to go, otherwise they also would have to ditch llvmpipe is MESA, which is not what will happen.

[Awesomeness]

Looks like they accidentally banned OpenJDK/IcedTea in favor of GCC?s Java compiler?

[spykes]

A wise decision

A wise decision from RH engineers.
While LLVM has some tractions in the JIT compiler area, it doesn't present any clear advantage for replacing GCC in a standard toolchain.
hobbyists can still install it if they want to test their code with it anyway.

[uid313]

I think LLVM does have future potential.
But right now, I do think GCC produces better results in the real world.

I think they should keep on using GCC, while also compiling everything with LLVM to make sure everything compiles cleanly.
Compiling with more than one compiler makes it better.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora To Remain Monogamist Towards GCC

While FreeBSD 10 is preparing to fully switch to LLVM's Clang compiler and deprecate GCC, don't expect such a compiler change to happen in the Fedora camp in the foreseeable future. Fedora engineers have issued a statement reaffirming their commitment to GCC and stance on "alternative compilers" within this Red Hat distribution...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEwMzI