On Friday, 8 March 2013 at 03:37:41 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2013-03-07 18:31:34 +0000, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> said:
On 2013-03-07 15:55, Kagamin wrote:
I heard, llvm was written for C and x86. C++, exceptions and
ARM pushed
it beyond its limits and created a lot of kludge and
redesigns.
Apple is betting everything on Clang/LLVM and they really need
ARM for iOS. They have basically given up on GCC. Last time
GCC got update was with Xcode 3.2.6, latest Xcode is 4.6,
according to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode#Toolchain_Versions
In other words, Apple stopped using newer versions of GCC when
the licence changed to GPLv3. I wonder where Clang/LLVM would
be today if GCC was still available under GPLv2.
BSD people also are switching to LLVM. This is a very high
quality tool in general, and even if you don't consider license
issues, you'd find good reasons to use it.
