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Re:Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE Parity Between Clang and GCC by cycloptic on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @10:58PM (#22315218)
Neither of those are significant -- both can be forked if it becomes necessary. GCC has a long history of forks, and half the reason clang is becoming popular is because the downstream vendors didn't like GPL and wanted to make proprietary forks.
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Re:Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE Parity Between Clang and GCC by pjmlp on Thursday February 13, 2020 @02:46AM (#22316047)
And GCC only became popular because UNIX vendors, starting with Sun, decided to sell the UNIX SDK separately from the base OS.
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