From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 22 09:10:00 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5936106564A for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:10:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71EB98FC0A for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:10:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C0F5C2B for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:22:31 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 30A1A5C21 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:22:31 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F1BD17C.3030209@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:06:04 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F1AAB66.5070100@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120121133506.7bcfaec9@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120121154313.53d3fec6@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120122070205.GA13081@hemlock.hydra> <4F1BB640.2050707@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120122074558.GA22918@hemlock.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20120122074558.GA22918@hemlock.hydra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Clang - what is the story? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:10:00 -0000 On 01/22/12 17:45, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:09:52PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: >> On 01/22/12 17:02, Chad Perrin wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 03:43:13PM +0000, RW wrote: >>>> I was just wondering what would have happened if Apple hadn't backed >>>> clang/LLVM as BSD licensed projects. Was there a plan B (other than >>>> gcc 4.2.1) or did Apple save the *BSD world? >>> The backup plan was probably PCC. >> Whats actually surprising is that it wasn't used as plan A (I just >> looked it up); It then would have come full circle ;) > A couple years ago, it looked like a race between PCC and TenDRA, but > Clang seemed to just come out of nowhere and steal all the attention. > All three of them had a lot to recommend them, but then the TenDRA > modernization project evaporated and everybody jumped on the Clang wagon. > At least, that's how it looked to me. Wow! I'm going to have to do some more research on compilers- I've never heard of these until now... I sound pretty stupid don't I? :P