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Subject: Re: Why Clang
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> Has the discussion on why change to clang been made available?
>
> I would like to know the reasoning.

CLANG isn't GNU licenced. Getting rid of communist licence is right, but 
still it should not be the prime reason for doing things, as having GNU 
licenced gcc doesn't really hurt.

personally i don't see CLANG anyhow better for now. AFAIK it is even more 
bloated than gcc


> Or, is it simply a gratuitous  change?
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> Tom Dean
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