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Re:GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @02:01PM (#1475620)
I was under the impression that they wanted to use llvm in their proprietary IDE (amongst other proprietary apps) which would rule out GCC for purely licensing reasons.
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Re:GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise by jonhohle on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @02:35PM (#1475712)
Xcode is already (and has always been) a wrapper around gcc/gdb. Clang provides a cleaner interface for integrating with an IDE (among a lot of other things).
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Re:GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise by koenigdavidmj on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @03:46PM (#1475948)
Yes. In addition, LLVM provides a much nicer interface to get symbol tables and things like that---another boon to Xcode.
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