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Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by rgovostes on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:23PM (#22478378)
I see. I was just using Nvidia’s CUDA compiler and it seems to be similar—-a combination of a proprietary frontend based on EDG and gcc to produce actual binaries.
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Re:FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system by monocasa on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:45AM (#22484685)
It's different, NVCC emits C code, then invokes a version of GCC on that code for the local system.

NextStep was trying to link a new frontend at the same level as C, C++, or Fortran, and just give the middle finger to the terms of the GPL.

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