Excellent news! Thank you for completing this. Updating toolchains isn't glamorous work but it is important and helps everybody.
Nick On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Nathan Froyd <nfr...@mozilla.com> wrote: > 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-platf...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >
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