Re: Status of gnustep for gcc-4.6

[John W Kennedy]

On 2011-03-17 09:21:34 -0400, David Chisnall said:

> On 16 Mar 2011, at 01:01, John W Kennedy wrote:
>
> > And it is the standard compiler for the just-out Xcode 4, though GCC 
> > 4.6 and GCC/LLVM are also available. Because of its many hooks, it 
> > vastly improves edit-time error detection.
>
>
> Minor correction.  GCC4.2 and LLVM-GCC 4.2 (GCC 4.2 front end, LLVM 
> back end) are also available.
> GCC 4.2.1 was the last version to be released under GPLv2.  Apple, like 
> several other companies, will not ship any GPLv3 code due to the patent 
> clause, so no future versions of GCC are ever likely to be shipped by 
> Apple.  The LLVM project has discontinued support for LLVM-GCC, in 
> favour of DragonEgg (GCC 4.5+ plugin that translates GIMPLE into LLVM 
> IR), but this is unlikely to be shipped by Apple, so it's unclear 
> whether llvm-gcc will be an option in future XCode releases.
>
> Currently, I think, GCC is the default for compiling [Objective-]C++, 
> but clang is now used for [Objective-]C.  Clang's C++ support is now 
> pretty solid, so I doubt that Apple will continue supporting GCC for 
> much longer.

And with Lion due in the summer, I suppose the discontinuation may be 
fairly soon. Well, I’m pretty happy with Clang, especially with its 
early detection.

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John W Kennedy
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