Modernizing Fedora's C code
Modernizing Fedora's C code
Posted Nov 3, 2022 6:04 UTC (Thu) by xen0n (subscriber, #99406)In reply to: Modernizing Fedora's C code by sam_c
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As an interesting side note, the ongoing effort of porting various Linux distros (including Gentoo of course) to the emerging LoongArch architecture would actually help here. Because the *first* LLVM/Clang to work on the architecture would be version 16. We already have caught many gcc-13-related changes in the wild, for that matter, and will surely continue to do so with clang-16.
And I find it so much more rewarding that work on such a niche architecture could benefit the Linux ecosystem as a whole. Keep on compiling!
Posted Nov 3, 2022 15:46 UTC (Thu)
by willy (subscriber, #9762)
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Modernizing Fedora's C code
Over twenty years ago, I went through much the same exercise for much the same reason with Itanium & PA-RISC. It was more C++ than C, but not being able to use gcc-2.95 forced us to fix a lot of crusty old code. It was a slog, but I'm glad you find this kind of exercise rewarding!