On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 10:06:52PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 02:32:03AM +0900, Daniel Dickman wrote:
> > > clang doesn't error out, gcc does.
> > > Why does numpy use gcc?
> > Because that's what upstream recommends in their docs.
> > 'Note that NumPy is developed mainly using GNU compilers. Compilers
> > from other vendors such as Intel, Absoft, Sun, NAG, Compaq, Vast,
> > Portland, Lahey, HP, IBM, Microsoft are only supported in the form
> > of community feedback, and may not work out of the box. GCC 4.x (and
> > later) compilers are recommended.'
> > See: https://numpy.org/devdocs/user/building.html
> That's probably not a good enough reason, especially considering how
> many security improvements are in base clang as opposed to base gcc...
That page may be out of date, too. It says Python 2.7 is supported,
whereas the 1.17.x release no longer support Python 2.7.
--Kurt
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