Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution
by astrange on Sunday June 16, 2019 @07:59PM
(#20198710)
> with a significantly less complicated code base
This is probably not true (because clang is in C++ it can't be less complicated than anything), and gcc is complicated in some parts because it uses much better algorithms (the LLVM register allocator is not as good as LRA). LLVM also has some very ugly DSLs like the .td files.
But GCC's codebase does have lots of added complexity from the extremely weird GNU coding style where they want you to pretend you're writing Lisp and all commits have to update a changelog file. Plus terrible GNU software like autotools and recursive make.
This is probably not true (because clang is in C++ it can't be less complicated than anything), and gcc is complicated in some parts because it uses much better algorithms (the LLVM register allocator is not as good as LRA). LLVM also has some very ugly DSLs like the .td files.
But GCC's codebase does have lots of added complexity from the extremely weird GNU coding style where they want you to pretend you're writing Lisp and all commits have to update a changelog file. Plus terrible GNU software like autotools and recursive make.