[Pkg-clamav-devel] Uploading 0.98.7+dfsg-4

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2015-11-27 00:24:32 [+0100], Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
Hi Andreas,

> Because the original JIT engine was still present in llvm-3.5.
> 
> > Is it something that needs to be used on llvm-3.6?
> 
> Yes, because the original JIT engine got removed.
> 
> > Looking at llvm's testsuite, it ignores failures on everything but x86.
> 
> Interesting...

So let me add some of the informations I gathered:
- llvm-3.5 will leave unstable before the release. I've been told today
  the chance are exactly zero that it will remain.
- I stumbled over https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=9605 saying and
  I quote "THe MCJIT is working for PPC64 only.".
  I'm going to ping him if something changed or will change but it
  matches our (or better your) observation.
- I was going to check your testcase on llvm-3.7 and snapshots but llvm
  failed to build on powerpc. So I can't.

> > What exactly do we lose if we disable llvm?
> 
> I guess the JIT engine is supposed to be faster than the interpreter.

So no lack of functionality. Does not sound that bad compared to broken
clambc in unstable like we have it right now.

> Best regards,
> Andreas

Sebastian