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Re:Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM by ch_123 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @05:49AM (#28154174)
Many of the proprietary C++ compilers (Intel included) are just repackaging of the EDG front end. The monoculture has existed for a long time in the C++ world due to the complexity of implementing the language to spec.

Honestly, I think it will be great to have one less set of compiler-specific oddities to worry about.

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Re:Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM by MauranKilom on Thursday August 12, 2021 @05:58AM (#28154250)
MSVC does not use EDG for the frontend as far as I'm aware. IntelliSense does, though.
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Re:Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM by bumblebritches5 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:58AM (#28155672)
Not anymore, they changed that in the last few years
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Re:Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM by account42 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:20AM (#28155299)
Funnily, the only reason I ever used ICC was as a linter since it was the most easily available EDG-based commpiler for me and different frontends help find different bugs.
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