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Here is the link to a thread on GCC's mailing list discussing the move by NNSA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10578354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item

by Jerry2 11y ago

Here is the link to a thread on GCC's mailing list discussing the move by NNSA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10578354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10578354 LLVM has a huge momentum now and it's negatively affecting GCC. GCC has been in trouble before but they got out of it by being the best free compiler available. I don't know how much longer they'll be able to sustain without making some changes.

kevinchen 11y ago
A choice quote from that thread: > Between 2000 and 2004, [g95 fortran] front-end was coupled to the rest of the infrastructure of the GNU Compiler Collection. This was not trivial (just as it will not be trivial to couple the PGI front-end to the LLVM infrastructure). They really don't get that LLVM's modularity is a strength...