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

[Iain Buclaw]

On 28 October 2013 18:38, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
<joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:
> On 28/10/13 18:48, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>
>>  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.
>
>
> It certainly seems to be true that LLVM is moving faster innovation-wise.  I
> don't know how much of that is down to any architectural advantages, how
> much might be because they support less targets and so have a lower
> maintenance burden, and how much of it is just the scale of resources being
> put into it.
>

I don't see it that way.  Up until now at least I haven't seen
anything they do that wasn't already do-able in GCC.  They just do a
better job at PR (which is what you expect from Apple anyway).


-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';