Re: Happy Birthday FreeBSD! Now you are 20 years old and your security is the same as 20 years ago... :)

[Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 03:57:20PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:41 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:56:16 -0500, "Mark Felder" said:
> >
> > > But does your exploit compile with clang?
> >
> > I'm gonna have to call Poe's Law on this one.  I can't tell if you're
> > trolling or merely confused. :)
>
> My guess is he's troll-baiting.
>
> Incorporation of clang in FreeBSD as the default compiler (vs. gnucc)
> has been a matter of some heat+light in the FreeBSD community.
>
> Kurt


i won moderate amount of beer from bets on "when will freebsd ditch
gcc from base?". fanatics took the bait and get mad at the
observation "freebsd wouldn't exist in its current form without gcc".

since at least recently clang can't compile some stuff g++ can
(almost sure gnu extensions).

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