Heads up, g++ in Xcode 5 points to Clang

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 28/10/13 14:22, evilrat wrote:
> sure, but i would prefer LLVM license over GCC if i were in Apple dev team(and
> that what they did). also LLVM is quite young, so who knows what people
> contribute to it in near future...

Surely, but we should have sympathy for Apple's desire to be able to exert 
proprietary control over their products because ... ? :-)

Don't get me wrong, LLVM itself is a fantastic project, and as long as people 
contribute great code to great free software projects I don't really mind what 
their motivation is, but if Apple's goal is to avoid the patent-related 
provisions of GPLv3, we could be in for a nasty surprise at some point in the 
future if compiler-related patents Apple holds become part of the battleground 
of the computing market.

 From a purely technical point of view, Apple doesn't need a compiler that 
supports a wide range of platforms, so GCC's much broader range of hardware 
support is irrelevant to it.  But it's an advantage GCC continues to have in the 
bigger picture.