[Info-vax] GCC and LLVM, was: Re: Software Distribution Strategies

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-09-07, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> One thing I read recently is that the Gentoo development team found
> lots of problems with the way that GCC was built on various systems
> and so developed some work-arounds which finally made it back into
> GCC. It seems that GCC is leading the pack (industry-wise) so much so
> that most C/C++ compilers seem to be playing catch-up to GCC (which
> means it will come back to OpenVMS)
>  

I wouldn't place any bets on gcc being the long term winner here as
LLVM (and clang) are creating a lot of positive feeling in some people.

LLVM is certainly a lot easier to work with than gcc when it comes to
writing your own compiler front ends for example.

It's nicely modular, unlike gcc, and the internals are well documented.

Both of them do have one thing in common however; as the version numbers
increase then so does the time taken to build them from source. :-(

Simon.

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