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by notaplumber 3179 days ago
> The i386 and amd64 platforms have switched to using clang(1) as the base system compiler.

Nice!

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There is a fascinating writeup on some problems that were caused by autoconf config file mistakes that didn't manifest themselves in gcc but showed up in the switch to clang:

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20170930133438

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> Disable some optimizations in clang(1) due to incompatibility with security.