From murray at stokely.org  Fri May 18 00:08:20 2012
From: murray at stokely.org (Murray Stokely)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 15:08:20 -0700
Subject: [Rd] r-devel fails tests for parallel
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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> This is getting increasingly difficult. ?GCC 4.6.x and 4.7.x detect a lot of
> errors (especially C++ errors) that earlier versions did not -- and that
> means CRAN gets a fair number of submissions that we cannot compile. ?And
> there have been a lot of optimization advances since 4.1.x.

I would also point out that clang has significantly better error
detection and diagnostics compared to current GCC.  Installations
stuck with old GCC releases for GPL3 reasons should really migrate to
clang / llvm.

                - Murray



[Rd] r-devel fails tests for parallel
Murray Stokely