Bug#704111: clang fails to correctly implement hard float ABI during default compiles due to rediculously low default CPU setting.

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 28/03/2013 06:31, peter green wrote:
> Ok I just had a discussion with adam conrad about this on IRC.
> 
> According to him clang currently does assume that armv7 means coretex a8
> and that coretex a8 mean full vfpv3 and neon. There is a patch in ubuntu
> precise/quantal to fix this  (26-armv7-not-neon.patch) but it's a pretty
> big patch and is self-described as a hideous hack. I doubt the release
> team would accept such a patch at this stage. Therefore it seems the
> only reasonable thing to do is to select armv6 for clang on armhf in
> wheezy.
> 
> He also alerted me to a patch that disables altivec by default on
> powerpc since not all powerpc hardware debian supports has altivec. I
> intend to include this in the proposed NMU, a copy of it is attached.
> 
> Since I now have confirmation on what clang does i'll prepare the NMU
> diff in a day or two.
No need to do a NMU here.

I can upload it right now.
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