Apple will use LLVM

[Mark Bidewell]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov at redhat.com> wrote:
>> GCC has a big community of very dedicated people.  LLVM has no such
>> community.  So IMHO GCC will be more high quality compiler than LLVM until
>> LLVM gets such community.
>>
>
> That can't be expected to continue now that there are many employers
> hiring people and forbidding them from working on GCC, even in their
> own time, while permitting them to work on LLVM.
>
> I'm not just spreading sour news for the sake of it, here is an
> example of where I ran into this impeding a GCC crash bug:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50335#c8
>
> (Though it will be quite ironic when LLVM becomes unusable to everyone
> because the "we don't give up our patent rights for this when we
> contribute to it" turns it into a thicket)
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In addition, FreeBSD is working to ensure that the base system can be
compiled without gcc so that will add to the community.

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