Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system
by pjmlp on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @09:48AM
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And without a GPL compiler, we will be back to the PD and *ware days.
Sony, Apple, IBM, and plenty of other embedded vendors don't contribute 100% their improvements back to LLVM.
Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system
by loeg on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:49PM
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Apple does like 80% of the open source development of LLVM; I don't really see a valid angle to criticize their participation in LLVM at this time.
Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system
by pjmlp on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @02:07PM
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Except that they happen to have an actual portable variant of bitcode for watchOS, their clang implementation different enough from mainline clang to warrant its own column on cppreference compiler listing, and Objective-C and Swift related changes are on "just what you need to know" basis and the community should put the missing pieces.
Personally I don't care, as I am mostly a commercial software user nowadays.
Just making the point that LLVM victory over GCC, might not turn out as FOSS supporters expect.
Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system
by bigcheesegs on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:26PM
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Apple Clang gets its own column because it doesn't align with the official LLVM release schedule, which is also why it doesn't use the upstream version numbers.
Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system
by jfkebwjsbx on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @08:03PM
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That does not make sense. They could simply use the LLVM version, even if it was an old one.
Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system
by ndesaulniers on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:09PM
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I just implemented a GNU C extension in Clang today! `asm inline`
As clang implements more and more of GCC's extensions, though, I could see things reaching that tipping point.