Apple will use LLVM

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On 02/15/2012 10:38 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> We're already building at least one package (hfsplus-tools) with llvm 
> because it relies on non-standard C extensions that gcc doesn't support, 
> and I believe the current software rasteriser in mesa depends on it. In 
> terms of it being the general compiler - it needs to work on all the 
> architectures we care about, it needs to have a level of maintenance in 
> Fedora at least as good as gcc, it needs to build better code than gcc 
> and (most importantly) it needs somebody to actually take responsibility 
> for proving all of that and making the transition happen.
> 
  Not to mention that the kernel devs use gcc to compile the kernel -
and it most certainly puts a lot of pressure on the compiler. I suspect
unless linus drops gcc as well, we'll at a minimum need to keep it to
build the kernel itself.

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