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It's because of the GPL3 and the "tivoization" clause. Apple was stuck on GCC 4.2, the last GPL2 version, for a very long time because subsequent versions made
by pcwalton 7y ago
It's because of the GPL3 and the "tivoization" clause. Apple was stuck on GCC 4.2, the last GPL2 version, for a very long time because subsequent versions made the move to GPL3. LLVM and Clang were the way Apple could move past having an obsolete toolchain.