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It seems more likely that they simply don't use upstream release tags and put their changes and maybe backport some changes on top of randomly chosen revision.
by Karliss 9y ago
It seems more likely that they simply don't use upstream release tags and put their changes and maybe backport some changes on top of randomly chosen revision. The same way as Google released Android ndk r15 few months ago with clang "5.0".
The sad part is that their version is neither older or newer than official release as it doesn't contain everything from upstream release and upstream doesn't contain all of their changes yet.
- 0x0 9y agoIt can't possibly be pure coincidence that a major llvm release is timed about one week off from the annual major apple macOS/iOS/toolchain + iPhone hardware release, with their history of employing big llvm contributors?
- theresistor 9y agoIt is. The tool chain going into those releases is locked down months in advance.