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

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-10-28 16:49, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:

> 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.

 From what I've heard and read (mostly from WWDC videos) Apple doesn't 
feel they can technically do what they want with a compiler with GCC.

I guess they technically can but it's too much work with the GCC code base.

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/Jacob Carlborg