Heads up, g++ in Xcode 5 points to Clang
Jacob Carlborg
doob at me.com
Mon Oct 28 02:22:54 PDT 2013
On 2013-10-28 09:40, David Nadlinger wrote:
> They are trying to phase out GCC altogether, as they are stuck with an
> ancient version due to licensing issues (GPLv3).
>
> The Clang driver was specifically engineered to be a drop-in replacement
> for GCC, so given that many Makefiles are hard-coded to use "gcc" or
> "g++", I think what they are doing makes sense.
I know the story, doesn't mean I like it. I like that they're changing
to the LLVM tool chain, but not they way they're doing it. Apparently
some tests fails when DMD is compiled with Clang.
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/Jacob Carlborg
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