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Re:Chromium Windows builds now use Clang by default by netheril96 on Friday July 28, 2017 @07:40PM (#14878474)
One reason is to use AddressSanitizers, ThreadSanitizers, static analysis and other tools clang and LLVM bring.
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Re:Chromium Windows builds now use Clang by default by blinkingled on Friday July 28, 2017 @07:56PM (#14878557)
That's a good point. It's good enough a reason to be able to run AS/TS on Windows code base. Not actually sure it works on Windows though.
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Re:Chromium Windows builds now use Clang by default by netheril96 on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:33PM (#14878734)
Google is the original writer or significant contributor of these tools. So presumably they first get clang work properly on Windows, then port these tools to Windows, then profit.
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