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Re:Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD user... by m0llusk on Saturday July 03, 2021 @10:50AM (#27721958)
BSD have a different construction of user space and development tool chains. System libraries are made for sharing and tools are based more there than on direct kernel interfaces. To do all of this with clang and no gcc may smooth out some various complexities.
Re:Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD user... by q66 on Saturday July 03, 2021 @12:06PM (#27722586)
actually i had gcc in there at first, and it's roughly the same; however, clang does have a number of benefits of its own