Debian Will Soon Make GCC 5 Its Default Compiler

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Debian Will Soon Make GCC 5 Its Default Compiler

Plans have been laid for making GCC 5 the default compiler in Debian Unstable by month's end. With the move to GCC5 comes libstdc++6 ABI breakage...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-GCC5-Unstable-Landing

[MartinN]

Phoronix: Debian Will Soon Make GCC 5 Its Default Compiler

Plans have been laid for making GCC 5 the default compiler in Debian Unstable by month's end. With the move to GCC5 comes libstdc++6 ABI breakage...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...stable-Landing

So what happened to all the Clang/Clang++ hype? I thought LLVM's implementation of C++ ran circles around GNU C/C++ - or is GCC5 a new beast?

[gamerk2]

For backward compatibility reasons, I can see large distributions staying with GCC. I fully expect Clang to take over when all is said and done.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

How about they get Libboost straightened out to 1.58+, get the latest OpenImageIO, OpenColorIO, OpenShading, OpenSubDiv, OpenEXR so Blender 2.75+ can actually build?

[oleid]

So what happened to all the Clang/Clang++ hype? I thought LLVM's implementation of C++ ran circles around GNU C/C++ - or is GCC5 a new beast?

clang++ only runs circles around g++ when it comes to compile times. And g++5 is faster than 4.9 in that case.

[waxhead]

For backward compatibility reasons, I can see large distributions staying with GCC. I fully expect Clang to take over when all is said and done.

When all is said and done there will be more said than done.....

[Luke_Wolf]

So what happened to all the Clang/Clang++ hype? I thought LLVM's implementation of C++ ran circles around GNU C/C++ - or is GCC5 a new beast?

Patience... FreeBSD has done most of the pipe cleaning on getting packages working under LLVM/CLang, but until it can compile the full Linux stack, and most importantly the Linux kernel, Linux distros are unlikely to use it.

[dungeon]

So what happened to all the Clang/Clang++ hype?

Nothing, no one said there is a plan to made it deault I guess you are refering to this 3 year old news, that was state of the art what can be compiled at the time:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTA2NjQ