Re: [tlug] Apple vs. FSF and gcc 4.2.1

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

>> There were a few articles at Ars Technica that offered quite an
>> interesting perspective (and a few educated guesses) on the state
>> of compilers in OSX. You may want to check this article (2009) and
>> a few others:
>> 
>> http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/9
> 
> Last time I looked at it (been at least a year or so) clang was
> still a mutant hybrid version of gcc. :-)

I think that is LLVM, which uses GCC as the front-end. Clang is the
replacement front-end to wean people off GCC completely:
  http://llvm.org/

Darren


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