Default compiler switched to clang on amd64 and i386

Contributed by rueda on 2017-07-27 from the clanging now extremely loud dept.

With this commit, the default compiler for (-current base system on the) amd64 and i386 platforms has been changed to clang(1):

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	robert@cvs.openbsd.org	2017/07/26 13:44:42

Modified files:
	share/mk       : bsd.own.mk 

Log message:
switch the default compiler on amd64 and i386 to clang,
but keep gcc4 in the build for these as well

ok deraadt@

The default compiler for ports has also changed for these platforms.

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By journeysquid (Tor) on 2017-07-27 14:26 http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html

Thanks! Looking forward to not having to build LLVM and its brethren as a dependency for Samba!
By Amit Kulkarni (170.49.113.22) on 2017-07-27 15:41

Well done team!
By Anonymous Coward (93.39.155.222) on 2017-07-27 17:32

Great news, GCC in base was starting to get really old. Let's hope to see better performing binaries too!
By Marc Espie (espie) espie@nerim.net on 2017-07-29 14:04

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank Yandex and their chief security officer Anton Karpov.

They give me hosting on some build machines, which I've used extensively over the last 3 months, working on zapping depends from the tree, and on fixing roughly 500 ports for the switch to clang.

There's absolutely zero way I would have been able to accomplish that in such a short time frame without those build machines, so we would probably still be a few months away from the clang switch.

So thank you Anton!
By Christopher (2600:8803:be00:719:ccb2:626b:3c4b:c7f5) on 2017-07-31 22:25

I've been waiting on this move for years. I'm very, very glad! Does that mean CLANG supports the security features that OpenBSD requires? I imagine the binaries will be much faster now. Next, fine grained SMP support and TRIM for SSDs and I'll be satisfied.

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