Hi all, Bug 1163171 has been merged to mozilla-central, moving our Android builds over to using clang instead of GCC. Google has indicated that the next major NDK release will render GCC unsupported (no bugfixes will be provided), and that it will be removed entirely in the near future. Switching to clang now makes future NDK upgrades easier, provides for better integration with the Android development tools, and brings improvements in performance/code size/standards support.
For non-Android platforms, the good news here is that compiling Fennec with clang was the last major blocker for turning on C++14 support. Using clang on Android also opens up the possibility of running our static analyses on Android. If you run into issues, please file bugs blocking bug 1163171. Thanks, -Nathan _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
