Heads up, g++ in Xcode 5 points to Clang
Joseph Rushton Wakeling
joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net
Mon Oct 28 08:49:27 PDT 2013
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.
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