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Re:Apple says no Java for you, removes plugin from browsers ... by wfarr on Friday October 19, 2012 @05:16AM (#4672807)
> They are shipping a completely outdated GCC

They are shipping a heavily modified GCC that originally was forked in 2008. The version of GCC they ship is entirely based on LLVM via Clang and is intended to be a hold-over for everything to transition to Clang over LLVM.

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Re:Apple says no Java for you, removes plugin from browsers ... by fauigerzigerk on Friday October 19, 2012 @05:47AM (#4672861)
It's 4.2.1, but the compiler is actually simple to replace anyway. The real problem for me is the C++ standard library.
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